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Live Oak Art Center

Live Oak Art Center (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($31,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$142k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$383k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Live Oak Art Center does

Mission

Live Oak Art Center has proudly offered classes, workshops, summer camps, and art exhibitions for all those who live in or visit Columbus, TX.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Live Oak Art Center has proudly offered classes, workshops, summer camps, and art exhibitions for all those who live in or visit Columbus, TX.

    $48,950 spentof which $67,786 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,950.

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 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($379k)2018 Revenue 81 ($136k) Expenses 95 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($377k)2019 Revenue 76 ($127k) Expenses 95 ($138k) Net assets 98 ($370k)2020 Revenue 70 ($117k) Expenses 78 ($114k) Net assets 99 ($376k)2021 Revenue 42 ($70k) Expenses 51 ($75k) Net assets 98 ($373k)2022 Revenue 89 ($148k) Expenses 89 ($130k) Net assets 107 ($404k)2024 Revenue 85 ($142k) Expenses 122 ($178k) Net assets 101 ($383k)
2017201820192020202120222024
Revenue (85)Expenses (122)Net assets (101)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 2021 to 2022, from $375k to $404k (+8%).

$386k
$380k
$373k
$377k
$375k
$404k
$384k
2017201820192020202120222024
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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Live Oak Art Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$10k
’19
$3k
’20
−$5k
’21
$18k
’22
−$37k
’24
7.2
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.

20172018
Listed89
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $25k.

Funder
'17
'18
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Live Oak Art Center’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

Live Oak Art Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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

76% 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 Live Oak Art Center.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.

“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

76% of Live Oak Art Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Live Oak Art Center's revenue fell 15% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Live Oak Art Center?
Live Oak Art Center (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($31,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Live Oak Art Center have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $41,000 in grants to Live Oak Art Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Live Oak Art Center?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Live Oak Art Center 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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