Florida · Nonprofit
OPEN SCENE INC
OPEN SCENE INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,101 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($74,030). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Open Scene Inc does
Mission
Educational and cultural purposes. Open Scene is a Latin-led nonprofit organization that produces educational arts programming performances and community-based cultural experiences that promote cultural understanding and public engagement with the arts in Orlando Florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Open Scenes annual performing arts festival is a week-long multidisciplinary event presenting live and digital performances artist conversations and community activities. The 2025 edition featured artists from the United States Latin America the Caribbean and Europe and emphasized accessibility multilingual engagement and pay-what-you-wish participation models.
$63,700 spentof which $50,000 as grants83% of program spendingThrough its Voices program Open Scene presented forums conversations and workshops led by artists and scholars exploring cultural identity artistic practice and social themes. Programs were designed to foster dialogue professional development and community engagement and were presented in partnership with local cultural institutions.
$12,000 spent16% of program spendingThe Escena Abierta Playwriting Contest is an annual educational initiative that supports emerging and established playwrights by providing a platform for original theatrical works. The program encourages artistic development cultural dialogue and access to contemporary playwriting and includes an open call evaluation process and public-facing presentations or readings.
$1,500 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,200.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $49k to $139k (+183%).
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.
78% of OPEN SCENE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Gisela Romero
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12 → $32k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OPEN SCENE 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
OPEN SCENE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 OPEN SCENE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
94% of OPEN SCENE 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. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OPEN SCENE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding OPEN SCENE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 OPEN SCENE 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.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SCENE 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 OPEN SCENE INC?
- OPEN SCENE INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,101 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($74,030). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN SCENE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $84,101 in grants to OPEN SCENE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SCENE INC?
- UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $74,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SCENE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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