Virginia · Nonprofit
Oakwood Arts Inc
Oakwood Arts Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,483 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($587,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $386k
What Oakwood Arts Inc does
Mission
We make art and careers in creative industries accessible to all through community engagement, inspiring programming, and experiential education. Our programs focus on the digital and technical skills students need to succeed in the creative workforce.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Creative Workforce Innovation is the umbrella for programs designed to create an education-to-employment pathway for people from backgrounds underrepresented in creative industries. Our Arts & Technology Programs include semester-long after-school programs, week-long camps, and workshops with community partners that introduce teens from under-resourced communities to creative professions. OA JET is a training, job placement, and registered apprenticeship program that provides access to professional crew positions in film and television for those with interest but limited opportunity. Contemporary Art Programs support emerging artists through professional practice workshops relevant to their careers and support an artist residency at Oakwood Arts that may include artist production, research, exhibitions, and community-engaged projects.
$244,338 spent$36,283 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $44k to $353k (+695%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 12% · 2023 15% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Oakwood Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Shannon Castleman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $59k → $189k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Oakwood Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
Oakwood Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 Oakwood Arts Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 38% · 2019 77% · 2020 78% · 2021 68% · 2022 48% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of Oakwood Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
55% of Oakwood Arts Inc'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 $512k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $618k 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
Oakwood Arts Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Oakwood Arts Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 Oakwood Arts 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 Oakwood Arts 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 Oakwood Arts Inc?
- Oakwood Arts Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,483 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($587,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Oakwood Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,130,483 in grants to Oakwood Arts Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakwood Arts Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $587,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakwood Arts 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17 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