Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SITAR ARTS CENTER
SITAR ARTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,822,216 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,843,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Sitar Arts Center does
Mission
Sitar Arts Center engages dc youth, from early childhood to young adulthood, in building a creative community of learning and belonging that removes financial and cultural barriers to arts education and career training. At sitar, students have equitable access to high quality education and workforce development in the visual, digital, and performing arts. All programs are offered on a sliding scale and 80% of enrollment is reserved for families experiencing low income. Programs take place in sitar's state-of-the-art facilities and reach up to 900 students a year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development: high school students and young adults, ages 14-24, engage in year-round arts-based leadership and workforce development programming. Sitar offers three tiered programs: sitar emerging arts leaders internships are paid, project-based summer internships for youth in mural arts, arts education, or musical theater; bloomberg arts internship offers year-round paid internships and college prep for rising high school seniors to support successful post-secondary transitions while developing their knowledge of the creative sector as a career path; and arts advance: career studios engages older youth and young adults in opportunities to build skills for careers in the creative industries.
$1,323,143 spent44% of program spendingArts afterschool: every day afterschool, and on saturdays, dc youth choose from 40+ multi-disciplinary arts classes and private instrumental music lessons to enroll in each semester. The programs engage students from early childhood all the way through highschool in visual, performing, and digital arts education. Through multigenerational music, art, movement, and theater classes, our youngest learners develop preliteracy skills, become more socially aware and confident, and begin their path to lifelong and self advocating learning. Across the semester, school-aged students develop artistic skills and 21st century learning and work skills, and work towards an individual or group project or performance. At the end of each semester, students share their completed works with the community through the student showcase.programs are enriched by renowned artistic partners such as the dc jazz festival, levine music, washington ballet, dc youth orchestra and more. When students reach 7th grade, they can enroll in the sitar emerging arts leaders program where they begin to master artistic skills, and build meaningful social connections through workshops, mentorships, field trips to cultural…
$865,252 spent$42,875 earned by the program29% of program spendingSummer at sitar: camp sitar is a six-week, full day summer program that provides multi-disciplinary arts learning and helps fill gaps in dc's city-wide need for summer care for families overcoming financial barriers. Through the program, elementary and middle school youth build their schedule around the art forms they want to explore including studio arts, acting, music, dance, darkroom photography, and digital arts. Performing arts students can participate in sitar's annual summer musical, a full-out broadway style production that rehearses each afternoon of camp and culminates in a week-end of performances on sitar's stage. Through progressive curriculum, summer teaching artists focus on developing students' 21st century learning skills. Going beyond the classroom, field trips to dc's diverse cultural assets inspire learning, project ideas, and creativity.
$832,395 spent$49,959 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,020,790.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $16M (+19%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 25% · 2019 27% · 2020 23% · 2021 17% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% · 2024 13% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SITAR ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Maureen Dwyer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $650k → $2.1M.
12 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SITAR ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 funders by total. 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
SITAR ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
36% 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 SITAR ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 29% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% — 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
63% of SITAR ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
SITAR ARTS CENTER draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
SITAR ARTS CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SITAR ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $435k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$435k
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 SITAR ARTS CENTER
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER?
- SITAR ARTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,822,216 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,843,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SITAR ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $11,822,216 in grants to SITAR ARTS CENTER, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SITAR ARTS CENTER?
- THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,843,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SITAR ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing