Kentucky · Nonprofit
RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC
RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $990,594 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($285,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $991k
- Net assets
- $263k
What River City Drum Corp Cultural Arts Institute Inc does
Mission
Build youths self-esteem while exposing them to various culturally enriching experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helped to build youths self-esteem while exposing them to various culturally enriching experiences in which the youth participated.
$204,694 spent$222,737 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,694.
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 $237k to $308k (+30%).
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: 2021 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Damian Thompson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $49k → $114k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE 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
RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 37% · 2019 47% · 2020 22% · 2021 46% · 2022 32% · 2023 39% — 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
75% of RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
100% of RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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
RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
- RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $990,594 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($285,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $990,594 in grants to RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
- BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER CITY DRUM CORP CULTURAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 11 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