Florida · Nonprofit
SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP
SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,098 to it, the largest being WILL & ANN EISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Sequential Artists Workshop does
Mission
The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW)'s mission is to nurture and educate tomorrow's generation of visual storytellers, to support creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art, and to promote sequential and comic art literacy in today's culture. Through its school(s), SAW's goal is to provide quality education to students dedicated to challenging themselves and learning interdisciplinary visual storytelling. Where its school(s) are located, SAW aims to educate and promote comics literacy in our local community(s). In addition, we aim to provide work spaces, teaching residencies and distribution/publishing resources for practicing sequential artists. Finally, through its national outreach program dedicated to publishing and promoting curious, intelligent, and visionary works we aim to integrate sequential art and artists into the broader cultural landscape.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided online assistance, courses, curriculum exploration in comics, graphic novels, visual storytelling and drawing.
$336,789 spent$397,581 earned by the program92% of program spendingProvide in-person instruction in comics, graphic novels, visual storytelling, writing and drawing, and drawing and art facilities including art space, tools and supplies and printing facilities.
$25,009 spentof which $4,739 as grants$12,069 earned by the program7% of program spendingProvide services and consulting to public agencies
$1,653 spentof which $2,000 as grants$4,138 earned by the program0% of program spendingRecorded and archived historical documents (audio, video) relating to sequential art and our mission
$1,826 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,277.
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 2022 to 2023, from $73k to $174k (+137%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 9 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.
Chief executive
Tom Hart
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $17.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP’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
SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 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
SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98 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
SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $300
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 SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP: 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 SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP?
- SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,098 to it, the largest being WILL & ANN EISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,098 in grants to SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP?
- WILL & ANN EISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2 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