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FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY

FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,211,637 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,211,637). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$224k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Floretta P Carson Visual and Performing Arts Academy does

Mission

To educate a diverse community of students through a rigorous pre-college level curriculum that prepares students for post-secondary education with an emphasis in the visual and performing arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Floretta P Carson Visual and Performing Arts Academy prepares students for careers in visual and performing arts and post secondary education by providing engaging, academically rigorous, and responsive lessons, and continuous opportunities for students to excel beyond their current ideas of creativity.

    $3,248,782 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,248,782.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2024 Revenue 3693 ($1.5M) Expenses 5433 ($1.3M) Net assets 1207 ($224k)
20232024
Revenue (3693)Expenses (5433)Net assets (1207)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $19k to $1.3M (+6706%).

$19k
$1.3M
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’23
$211k
’24
0.9
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$1.2M
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3593% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY?
FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,211,637 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,211,637). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,211,637 in grants to FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY?
NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $1,211,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing