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LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC

LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,172 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($237,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$239k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
$-29404
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Lexington Art League Inc does

Mission

The organization promotes the visual arts in the central kentucky area through sponsorshps of exhibits, offering classes, art fairs, and similar endeavors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Developmental programs for artists, production/program expenses for art exhibits, artists' fees, etc.

    $139,655 spent$161,557 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $139,655.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($491k) Expenses 100 ($496k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 92 ($450k) Expenses 100 ($494k) Net assets 43 ($31k)2019 Revenue 60 ($294k) Expenses 61 ($302k) Net assets 27 ($19k)2020 Revenue 58 ($284k) Expenses 53 ($264k) Net assets 54 ($38k)2021 Revenue 35 ($170k) Expenses 37 ($186k) Net assets 31 ($22k)2022 Revenue 47 ($230k) Expenses 44 ($219k) Net assets 46 ($32k)2023 Revenue 66 ($323k) Expenses 54 ($270k) Net assets 121 ($85k)2024 Revenue 46 ($225k) Expenses 57 ($282k) Net assets 25 ($18k)2025 Revenue 49 ($239k) Expenses 58 ($287k) Net assets -42 ($-29404)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (58)Net assets (-42)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 2017 to 2018, from $190k to $113k (−41%).

$190k
$113k
$119k
$84k
$103k
$128k
$180k
$116k
$68k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 39% · 2022 10% · 2023 39% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$44k
’18
−$8k
’19
$19k
’20
−$16k
’21
$10k
’22
$52k
’23
−$57k
’24
−$47k
’25
2.3
months of
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

Lori Rowland Houlihan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed18141415151513129
Joined·+3+4+2+0+0+8+2+5
No longer listed·741001038
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $64k → $16k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC’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

LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC.

65%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

OH
KY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC

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In Kentucky

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 36%Fundraising 15%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC?
LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,172 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($237,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $364,172 in grants to LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC?
LEXARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $237,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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