Kentucky · Nonprofit
FUND FOR THE ARTS INC
FUND FOR THE ARTS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,526,238 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,828,564). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Fund for the Arts Inc does
Mission
At the Fund for the Arts, we believe that art is a right, not a privilege because art is a fundamental expression of the human condition. We envision a healthy and vibrant community where everyone embraces the art that exists in our lives every day, where everyone contributes to the well-being of our arts community, and where everyone belongs. Our Mission is to contribute to the overall health and well-being of our community by generating resources for, investing in, and supporting our local arts, artists and arts organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At the Fund for the Arts, we believe that art is a right, not a privilege because art is a fundamental expression of the human condition. We envision a healthy and vibrant community where everyone embraces the art that exists in our lives every day, where everyone contributes to the well-being of our arts community, and where everyone belongs. Our Mission is to contribute to the overall health and well-being of our community by generating resources for, investing in, and supporting our local arts, artists and arts organizations. The Fund builds a stronger community by investing in a broad range of arts, artists and arts organizations and artistic programs across the region. We work with our community leaders to best leverage the impact of the arts on community priorities such as equity and belonging, education, sustainability and health and well-being. Beyond funding organizations, projects, and programs, we provide support through convening, capacity building, promotion, and advocacy. To achieve this, we provide numerous programs for grant-making, in-kind resource support, and strategic planning for organizations that help empower every resident in our city to see themselves as…
$4,288,884 spentof which $3,468,968 as grants$6,016,330 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,288,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.5M to $10M (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% · 2024 12% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of FUND FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Andre Guess
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $452k → $1.2M.
14 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.7M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FUND FOR THE ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FUND FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FUND FOR THE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FUND FOR THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 69% · 2019 20% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of FUND FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of FUND FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
FUND FOR THE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 41 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FUND FOR THE ARTS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR THE ARTS INC: 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 FUND FOR THE ARTS INC?
- FUND FOR THE ARTS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,526,238 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,828,564). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $12,526,238 in grants to FUND FOR THE ARTS INC, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR THE ARTS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,828,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR THE ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 92 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing