Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC
NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,215,104 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($3,827,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What National Arts Strategies Inc does
Mission
To educate, strengthen and support the management and leadership of the nonprofit arts and culture field by offering combinations of coaching, executive education and grant awards with the assistance of funders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts and culture strategies: a multi-month process that strengthens organizations and individuals by helping and coaching them to develop stronger management, organizational, project creation and financial practices to the ultimate benefit of their creative missions and communities. The process aims to create local community building engagement activities and the ongoing capacity to respond to changes in the external environment.
$1,840,227 spentof which $165,000 as grants$291,535 earned by the program61% of program spendingEducation program: for arts & culture managers and leaders, creative entreprenuers and arts & culture board members in their communities and nationwide. Nas delivers leadership and management programs with the asistance of grants from national and regional foundations. The programs combine theoretical frameworks with practical application.
$1,178,552 spentof which $275,450 as grants39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,018,779.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.2M to $9.9M (+21%).
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.
72% of NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Gail Crider
President & CEO
Board chair
Kristina Newman-Scott
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $554k → $2.7M.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES 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
NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 66% · 2021 65% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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
25% of NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $154k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$154k
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 NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
8%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC: 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 NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC?
- NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,215,104 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($3,827,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $11,215,104 in grants to NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,827,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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