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QUAD CITY ARTS INC

QUAD CITY ARTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,777 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,680,938). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$775k
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What Quad City Arts Inc does

Mission

Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. One of the quad city arts' role as a local nonprofit arts organization is to serve as a partner to artists and nonprofit organizations through: visual arts - providing and communicating opportunities for visual artists to exhibit and sell their work. Arts dollars regranting - providing funding for artists and organizations producing work or programming with a community arts emphasis.

    $961,581 spent$739,803 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  2. Quad city arts' other role as a local nonprofit arts organization is to present arts programs through: performing arts - including the national award winning visiting artist series. Visual & public arts - including exhibition and sales galleries on location, a satellite exhibition gallery at the airport, and facilitating art in public spaces. Metro arts - summer youth employment program with arts and job skills training for high school and college students.

    $833,076 spent$267,243 earned by the program
    46% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,794,657.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($790k)2018 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 107 ($845k)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.4M) Expenses 110 ($1.5M) Net assets 106 ($835k)2020 Revenue 68 ($1.0M) Expenses 71 ($951k) Net assets 120 ($947k)2021 Revenue 121 ($1.8M) Expenses 110 ($1.5M) Net assets 174 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.6M) Expenses 132 ($1.8M) Net assets 148 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 112 ($1.7M) Expenses 144 ($1.9M) Net assets 128 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 114 ($1.7M) Expenses 151 ($2.0M) Net assets 98 ($775k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (151)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+32%).

$810k
$868k
$887k
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$992k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 5% · 2021 18% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of QUAD CITY ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$190k
’17
$83k
’18
−$47k
’19
$84k
’20
$386k
’21
−$136k
’22
−$203k
’23
−$270k
’24
2.1
months of
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.

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Listed1819171918141520
Joined·+2+2+3+2+0+5+9
No longer listed·1413444
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $327k → $374k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 QUAD CITY 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

QUAD CITY ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 QUAD CITY ARTS INC.

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 78% · 2019 86% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 49% · 2023 57% — 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.

How long its funders stay

55% of QUAD CITY ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of QUAD CITY ARTS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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IL
NY
IA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

QUAD CITY ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding QUAD CITY ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275k on record.

Federal$275k
grants $275kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$275k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC?
QUAD CITY ARTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,777 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,680,938). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does QUAD CITY ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,955,777 in grants to QUAD CITY ARTS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of QUAD CITY ARTS INC?
QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,680,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like QUAD CITY ARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2024), 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