Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,617 to it, the largest being ROBERT J BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $-439215
What International Child Art Foundation does
Mission
ICAF has served American children as their national arts organization since 1997. ICAF employs the arts as a universal language of peace to foster bonds among them and with their peers worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
ICAF organized its national school art program (the Arts Olympiad). The 7th Arts Olympiad's deadline was extended to May 15, 2026. In 2025, ICAF successfully conducted the program in several U.S. school districts. Many more school districts will be invited to participate in 2026. The exceptional young artists chosen through school art contests will represent their schools at the 7th World Children's Festival which will take place on the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol on July 25-27, 2026.
$66,900 spentof which $41,437 as grants82% of program spendingICAF publishes four quarterly issues of ChildArt magazine each year. In 2025, the magazines focused on the following themes: Philanthropy (January-March), Art & Social Justice (April-June), Robotics (July-September), and Corporate Social Responsibility (October-December).
$15,000 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $303k to $24k (−92%).
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.
100% of INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ashfaq Ishaq
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $22k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION’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
INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 77% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 45% — 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
40% of INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION: 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 INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION?
- INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,617 to it, the largest being ROBERT J BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $151,617 in grants to INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION?
- ROBERT J BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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