Texas · Nonprofit
MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED
MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,209 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($94,172). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Make Art With Purpose Incorporated does
Mission
Make Art with Purpose produces collaborative arts and arts education programs that are free and open to the public. We work in partnership with universities and schools, museums, government agencies and other non-profit organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Tell Her Story project paired herstorians (aka breast cancer survivors) with female artists who worked collaboratively to interpret and express each herstorian's narrative through performance and visual art. The artists and herstorians met one and one, and in group meetings from January - August 2025. The project culminated in fall 2025 with a dynamic exhibition, performances, a panel discussion and a publication that includes personal stories, artwork, and essays.
$40,750 spentof which $40,750 as grants93% of program spendingA set of design and art workshops, What About Empathy? explored how small yet deliberate creative gestures can bridge divisions. Participants used design methodologies to delve into their personal interests around social issues and learn practical strategies to engage their creativity. These tools helped conceive interventions that fostered connection and community. A multi-year poject, in 2025 What About Empathy? was produced in Cambridge, MA.
$1,824 spentof which $1,500 as grants4% of program spendingLet's Talk - Let's Talk is an intermittent zine that gives space to writing and art connected to diverse people and cultures. Each publication includes public programs that celebrate the voices within. This issue included movement/dance workshops, public readings, and performances, all free and open to the public. The publication launch of Let's Talk #4, in 2025, included readings and a live performance.
$1,220 spentof which $1,220 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,794.
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 2024 to 2025, from $40k to $8k (−79%).
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.
100% of MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $8k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED’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
MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
56% of MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED'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 $75k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED: 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 MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED?
- MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,209 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($94,172). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $169,209 in grants to MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $94,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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