Tennessee · Nonprofit
RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE
RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,600 to it, the largest being JOHN D FLOYD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Rutherford Arts Alliance does
Mission
"to connect creatives and community" - we are a networking organization that promotes all genres of the Arts within the community and to work with corporations, civic organizations and local governments to increase the collaboration for more cultural arts opportunities for all persons in the community; also to provide support for artists through workshops, trainings, collaborations, and opportunities to undergird their craft and gather support amongst a fellow artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
scholarships for students with financial need within the public school system to provide art/instrument supplies - 9 students were assisted with scholarships for the full school year
$2,942 spent3% of program spendingA fully designed and executed sculpture , created by 28 artists, was gifted to the local children's museum.
$98,797 spent97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,739.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
100% of RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jeff Lysyczyn
Executive Director
Board chair
Gale Stoner
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $507 → $17.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE’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
RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
91% of RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100 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
RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE
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 Tennessee
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 RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE: 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 RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE?
- RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,600 to it, the largest being JOHN D FLOYD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,600 in grants to RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE?
- JOHN D FLOYD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUTHERFORD ARTS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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