Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,800 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc does
Mission
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Inc. (NASAA) is the professional association that serves the nation's 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies. We are a nonpartisan national not-for-profit organization that champions public support for the arts in America. The mission is to strengthen state arts agencies. We provide knowledge, representation and community building services that help state arts agencies excel in their many citizen service roles. Our work is driven by a strong belief that the arts are essential to a thriving democracy and that the public, private and nonprofit sectors each have a vital role to play in sustaining the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
NASAA empowers the work of state arts agencies through: 1. Representation. NASAA is a champion and advocate for state arts agencies, asserting the importance of the arts to decision makers. We shape public policy, foster multisector support for the arts and give state arts agencies a persuasive voice in influential national networks. 2. Knowledge: NASAA provides authoritative data to support evidence-based case making and decision making. Our research and professional development services inform and inspire state arts agencies, sparking new ways of working, serving the public and developing the resilience in our field. 3. Community: NASAA convenes and connects state arts agencies. Our professional community energizes the work of state arts agencies, unites our members around common goals and builds a shared vision for the future. NASAA amplifies the expertise, influence, funding and vision that state arts agencies employ on behalf of every American. Through NASAA, state arts agencies achieve more together than they can alone.
$2,081,910 spentof which $4,500 as grants$1,208,851 earned by the program76% of program spendingContracts - Cooperative Agreements: Agreements entered into between NASAA and a federal agency to assist in carrying out a shared public purpose.
$641,718 spent$735,584 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,723,628.
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 $2.7M to $5.8M (+118%).
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: 2017 33% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 36% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% · 2024 30% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of National Assembly of State Arts Agencies 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. 3 of the last 9 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
Pamela Breaux
President and CEO
Board chair
Donna Collins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $805k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $110k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of National Assembly of State Arts Agencies 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 Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 69% · 2022 53% · 2023 19% — 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
13% of National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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 Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k 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
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.0M on record — $14.2M federal, $751k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$14.2M
- MA$217k
- DE$142k
- CT$119k
- OR$102k
- MD$100k
- OK$72k
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 Assembly of State Arts Agencies 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 Assembly of State Arts Agencies 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 Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc?
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,807,800 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,807,800 in grants to National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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