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Mobile Arts Council Inc

Mobile Arts Council Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,202 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($66,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$609k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$217k
Net assets
$405k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Mobile Arts Council Inc does

Mission

Mobile Arts Councils mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Mobile area through increasing accessibility to the arts and promoting a vibrant cultural community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program Services - arts organizations are an essential part of the development of a New Mobile and they have been a force for growth and expansion in the Mobile area. Art plays a significant role in attracting people to live and work in our community and it builds social capital. Art and cultural activities attract tourists and acts as a catalyst for downtown revitalization. Member organizations include theatrical, musical, artistic and historical preservation groups.

    $495,363 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. C

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $495,363.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($272k) Expenses 100 ($281k) Net assets 100 ($131k)2020 Revenue 119 ($323k) Expenses 87 ($244k) Net assets 161 ($210k)2021 Revenue 136 ($371k) Expenses 116 ($325k) Net assets 196 ($257k)2022 Revenue 137 ($373k) Expenses 126 ($353k) Net assets 211 ($277k)2023 Revenue 211 ($575k) Expenses 179 ($503k) Net assets 266 ($348k)2024 Revenue 268 ($730k) Expenses 240 ($674k) Net assets 309 ($404k)2025 Revenue 223 ($609k) Expenses 216 ($608k) Net assets 310 ($405k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (223)Expenses (216)Net assets (310)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 2019 to 2020, from $141k to $223k (+58%).

$141k
$223k
$274k
$321k
$373k
$429k
$447k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 35% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 42% · 2024 44% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Mobile Arts Council Inc’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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’19
$79k
’20
$46k
’21
$20k
’22
$72k
’23
$56k
’24
$960
’25
2.9
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.

Chief executive

Angela Montgomery

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed15141612141312
Joined·+4+8+1+5+3+5
No longer listed·565346
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $45k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Mobile Arts Council 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

Mobile Arts Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

31%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 57% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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 Mobile Arts Council Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of Mobile Arts Council Inc's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

MS
AL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mobile Arts Council Inc has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

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

Government funding Mobile Arts Council Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $113k on record.

Federal$113k
grants $113kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$113k

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.

Organizations like Mobile Arts Council Inc

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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 10%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc?
Mobile Arts Council Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,202 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($66,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mobile Arts Council Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $217,202 in grants to Mobile Arts Council Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mobile Arts Council Inc?
THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mobile Arts Council Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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