Kentucky · Nonprofit
LEXARTS INC
LEXARTS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,022,419 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($498,231). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $967k
What Lexarts Inc does
Mission
Lexarts promotes quality arts experiences for the benefit of the people in central kentucky through funding, advocacy, technical assistance, communication and planning initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lexarts regrants funds raised through its annual fund for the arts to five partner organizations that receive general operating support (gos) and 20+ arts organizations in the form of program and project grants. The application processes for these grants are rigorous, requiring evidence of financial stability and artistic quality. Service to youth, diverse and underserved audiences is emphasized as are audience size, community participation, collaboration, and evaluation. Written applications and financial information are vetted by lexarts staff, evaluated on paper and in an open public process by a panel of peer reviewers, further reviewed by the grants committee of the lexarts board of directors and finally approved by the lexarts board as a whole.
$662,620 spentof which $662,620 as grants78% of program spendingLexarts provides a wide range of programs and services designed to integrate the arts into the daily lives of all citizens, including the free lexarts gallery hop, lexington youth arts council, and artscope weekly email arts calendar. Lexarts staff and board work closely with community leaders on public art projects in obtaining funding, developing plans, soliciting proposals, facilitating artist and site selection processes, and gathering public input. Lexarts also operates artsplace, a facility in downtown lexington with a high quality visual arts gallery as well as performance, rehearsal and office space for nonprofit arts organizations.
$186,669 spent$576,706 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $849,289.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $3.9M (+133%).
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 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% · 2024 35% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of LEXARTS 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. 7 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
Amelia Sweetall
President, CEO & director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $106k → $252k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LEXARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
LEXARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
51% 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 LEXARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 38% · 2019 46% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of LEXARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
58% of LEXARTS 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. $849k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LEXARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LEXARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $510k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$510k
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 LEXARTS 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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 LEXARTS 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 LEXARTS INC?
- LEXARTS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,022,419 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($498,231). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEXARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,022,419 in grants to LEXARTS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEXARTS INC?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $498,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEXARTS 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 48 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