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San Marcos Art League

San Marcos Art League (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,309 to it, the largest being THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$123k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$75k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What San Marcos Art League does

Mission

To encourage, foster, promote, nurture the arts in the San Marcos Community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promote and encourage local artist and their works to the community through fundraising events, workshops and demonstrations.

    $101,483 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,483.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2024 Revenue 278 ($114k) Expenses 191 ($99k) Net assets 124 ($75k)2025 Revenue 301 ($123k) Expenses 238 ($123k) Net assets 124 ($75k)
202320242025
Revenue (301)Expenses (238)Net assets (124)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 2023 to 2024, from $61k to $76k (+24%).

$61k
$76k
$76k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of San Marcos Art League’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’23
$15k
’24
−$400
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $9.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 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 San Marcos Art League’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

San Marcos Art League leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

57% of San Marcos Art League's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

San Marcos Art League has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)73% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding San Marcos Art League receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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 San Marcos Art League

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 Texas

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds San Marcos Art League?
San Marcos Art League (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,309 to it, the largest being THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does San Marcos Art League have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,309 in grants to San Marcos Art League, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of San Marcos Art League?
THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like San Marcos Art League find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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