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LOCUST PROJECTS INC

LOCUST PROJECTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,684,648 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,260,668). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$384k
23/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Locust Projects Inc does

Mission

Locust projects is an alternative, not for profit, miami-based exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freeddom to experiment with new ideas and methods without the pressures of gallery sales or other limitations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided exhibtion space and public exposure for site-specific visual artwork by presenting workds of several local, national and international artists.

    $840,134 spent
    74% of program spending
  2. Provided incubator grants to visionary artistis for innovative publicly accessible projects trhough wavemaker program.

    $99,238 spentof which $55,400 as grants
    9% of program spending
  3. Provided intensive art summer camp for high shcool students with an interest in art, design and exploring creative careers to learn from professional artists.

    $164,419 spent
    14% of program spending
  4. Held arious programs designed to support artists such as legallink, artist talks and a digital inovation lab.

    $37,765 spent
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,141,556.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($830k) Expenses 100 ($831k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2019 Revenue 94 ($778k) Expenses 107 ($886k) Net assets -11 ($-10398)2020 Revenue 137 ($1.1M) Expenses 97 ($805k) Net assets 331 ($321k)2021 Revenue 106 ($877k) Expenses 95 ($786k) Net assets 425 ($411k)2022 Revenue 108 ($894k) Expenses 136 ($1.1M) Net assets 185 ($179k)2023 Revenue 199 ($1.7M) Expenses 150 ($1.2M) Net assets 605 ($585k)2024 Revenue 129 ($1.1M) Expenses 165 ($1.4M) Net assets 296 ($286k)2025 Revenue 195 ($1.6M) Expenses 183 ($1.5M) Net assets 397 ($384k)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (183)Net assets (397)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 2022 to 2023, from $223k to $1.3M (+497%).

$176k
$56k
$381k
$423k
$223k
$1.3M
$886k
$869k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 1% · 2024 30% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

103% of LOCUST PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$691
’18
−$107k
’19
$331k
’20
$91k
’21
−$232k
’22
$406k
’23
−$299k
’24
$97k
’25
0.9
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.

Board chair

John Devine

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed3336353535363133
Joined·+6+5+3+4+4+4+4
No longer listed·3634392
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $124k → $818k.

7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LOCUST PROJECTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

LOCUST PROJECTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

30% 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 LOCUST PROJECTS INC.

34%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 39% · 2019 79% · 2020 33% · 2021 71% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% — 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

43% of LOCUST PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

63% of LOCUST PROJECTS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MI
NY
WY
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $876k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

LOCUST PROJECTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LOCUST PROJECTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $227k on record.

Federal$227k
grants $227kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$227k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 14%Fundraising 11%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOCUST PROJECTS INC?
LOCUST PROJECTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,684,648 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,260,668). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOCUST PROJECTS INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,684,648 in grants to LOCUST PROJECTS INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOCUST PROJECTS INC?
JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,260,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOCUST PROJECTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing