Texas · Nonprofit
HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS
HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,207 to it, the largest being MARBLE FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($41,675). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Highland Lakes Creative Arts does
Mission
Form 990-ez, part iii - primary exempt purposethe organization fosters and promotes the creative and performing arts in the texas highland lakes area. Form 990-ez, part iii, line 28 - first accomplishmentHighland Lakes Creative Arts brings together a collaboration of communities, creative professionals, businesses, education entities and mentor programs to further the cultural arts of the area. Form 990-ez, part iii, line 29 - second accomplishmentpaint the town (ptt) brings artists from across the nation to capture the outdoor sights and scenes of historic marble falls. Exhibits and galleries are presented along with a student competition. Form 990-ez, part iii, line 30 - third accomplishmentsculpture on main (som) brings sculptors from around the us to install a piece of their work on or around the city of marble falls main street. New sculptures rotate in and out during the year, with a reception in the fall honoring the sculptors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$10,005 spent8% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$104,409 spentof which $25,300 as grants84% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$9,320 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,734.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $8k to $24k (+226%).
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.
18% of HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS’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.
How concentrated its funding is
HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: 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 HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS?
- HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,207 to it, the largest being MARBLE FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($41,675). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $49,207 in grants to HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS?
- MARBLE FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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