Nebraska · Nonprofit
LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS
LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Nebraska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,534,346 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($915,815). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $941k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Lux Center for the Arts does
Mission
Lux Center for the Arts is dedicated to transforming lives through art. We are a community of art lovers providing education through art classes, artist in residency programs, gallery exhibitions, and community outreach. We believe the lux can help people make meaningful connections to art regardless of who they are.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide visual arts learning opportunities for the public: art classes for youth and adults; artists' lectures; art of fine craft conference; gallery tours; and collaborate with other organizations to offer hands-on-art projects. Continue to preserve lux collections.
$833,561 spent$230,435 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $833,561.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $2.1M (+12%).
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: 2023 23% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Adam Morfeld
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $86k → $228k.
4 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 22% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 18% — 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 LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS'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
91% of LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 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 LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Nebraska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,534,346 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($915,815). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,534,346 in grants to LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $915,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 35 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