Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Racine Arts Council Inc
Racine Arts Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,362 to it, the largest being OSBORNE & SCEKIC FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($73,455). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Racine Arts Council Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1967, the racine ars council encourages, supports and advocates on behalf of emerging and established artists, artistic groups in our community and young people interested in the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Artroot wall poems project. The racine arts council is the fiscal receiver for the artroot wall poems project. The wall poems of racine is an artroot project in collaboration with university of wisconsin-parkside and other community partners, the project celebrates local literary talent by pairing an excerpt from a poem written by a racine poet with a design created by a student from carey watters advanced graphic design class at uw-parkside. Each year, a poetry selection committee of local writers selects several poetry excerpts from racine poets and provides them to the uw-parkside graphic design students. Each student chooses an excerpt to incorporate into a design. Students visit the potential wall poem sites to meet the business owners, interview them about their business and ask how the design can help support their community. Students present their initial designs to a design review committee that includes the building owners and community representatives, and the committee provides feedback to the students. Students modify their designs based on the feedback and present them a second time to the committee. The committee chooses one or two final designs based on the number…
$11,300 spent43% of program spendingArtseed program - the purpose of the artseed grant program is to encourage and enhance the arts in the racine area and to foster excitement, support and growth in the arts community. The rac seeks projects that encourage new, innovative or experimental programs based in the arts.
$10,000 spent38% of program spendingPoetry movement - the racine arts council is the fiscal sponsor for the poetry movement program. The poetry movemement helps move the southeast wisconsin creative writing community forward by hosting an open mic performance showcase at the transit center, coordinating a bus poems project to outfit public transit with community member's poems, and maintaining a list of open mics in racine and kenosha counties and the surrounding area.
$3,841 spent15% of program spendingLONELY INSTRUMENTS NEED KIDS (LINK) - LINK is a program designed to give elementary, middle school, and high school students an opportunity to participate in school band and orchestra programs and other community musical youth organizations. Donated instruments and cases are given to children who are financially unable to purchase or rent an instrument of their own.
$1,199 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,340.
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.
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 $77k to $46k (−40%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $14k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Racine Arts Council 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
Racine Arts Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 Racine Arts Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 49% · 2022 87% · 2023 96% — 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
50% of Racine Arts Council Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of Racine Arts Council Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.
Organizations like Racine Arts Council 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Racine Arts Council 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 Racine Arts Council Inc?
- Racine Arts Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,362 to it, the largest being OSBORNE & SCEKIC FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($73,455). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Racine Arts Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $137,362 in grants to Racine Arts Council Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Racine Arts Council Inc?
- OSBORNE & SCEKIC FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $73,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Racine Arts Council Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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