Florida · Nonprofit
OOLITE ARTS INC
OOLITE ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,745,221 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($651,354). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $129M
What Oolite Arts Inc does
Mission
The mission of oolite arts is to support artists and advance the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in south florida. Oolite arts creates opportunities for experimentation and innovation, and encourages the exchange of ideas across cultures through residencies, exhibitions, public programs, education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artists & studio program:thirteen visual artists are awarded free work studios at 924 lincoln road, as well as a $1,250 monthly financial stipend, and benefit from exhibition and teaching opportunities, open studio events and studio visits with gallerists and curators. South florida based artists are selected for travel residency opportunities at bag factory artist studios in johannesburg, south africa, mass moca in north adams, ma. And artpace in san antonio, tx. The cinematic arts residency awards one miami dade filmmaker per year $50,000 in funding to create a micro budget narrative film. Since 2018, the ellies awards have distributed $3 million to more than 280 miami visual artists in support of new work.
$1,752,217 spentof which $218,717 as grants$603,569 earned by the program54% of program spendingEducation and outreach program:oolite arts delivered 404 in-person and virtual classes and workshops serving youth and adults, led by 14 local teaching artists. The led arts portfolio development program supports high school students as they strengthen their practice, develop artist statements, and assemble the portfolios and materials required for admission to visual arts colleges. The organization's printshop offers a fully equipped printmaking studio, including a charles brand etching press, brayers, general tools, cleaning supplies, a drying rack, a silkscreen darkroom, flat-file storage, and additional equipment.
$379,139 spent$76,055 earned by the program12% of program spendingGalleries & exhibitions program:oolite staff and visiting curators organize the organization's exhibitions and public programs. Each year, oolite presents three curated exhibitions at its 924 lincoln road space, featuring new work by resident artists as well as local and nationally recognized artists. Eight additional off-site exhibitions are presented annually at two walgreens storefronts, where installations remain on view 24/7 and are seen by an estimated 65,000 passersby per year. Skills professional development workshops provide artists and filmmakers with the tools to advance their careers.
$1,143,056 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,274,412.
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 2021 to 2022, from $116M to $97M (−16%).
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 16% · 2018 3% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of OOLITE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $135k → $139k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 OOLITE ARTS 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
OOLITE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 OOLITE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 67% · 2020 38% · 2021 57% · 2022 79% · 2023 76% — 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
83% of OOLITE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
69% of OOLITE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $695k 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
OOLITE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OOLITE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Oolite Arts Campus LLC · disregarded
- Oolite 918 Lincoln LLC · disregarded
- Oolite 920 Lincoln LLC · disregarded
- Oolite 924 Lincoln LLC · disregarded
- Oolite 928 Lincoln LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OOLITE ARTS INC?
- OOLITE ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,745,221 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($651,354). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OOLITE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,745,221 in grants to OOLITE ARTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OOLITE ARTS INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $651,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OOLITE ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 14 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