Georgia · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED
SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,471 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance Incorporated does
Mission
SEFAA's mission is to (1) provide seminars, classes, workshops, and other educational events on fiber art topics, (2) sponsor fiber art exhibitions, (3) provide facilities for the promotion and appreciation of the fiber arts, (4) sponsor special events open to the public focused on the fiber arts, (5) promote innovation and excellence in the fiber arts, (6) preserve fiber art skills and traditions, (7) educate the public about fiber arts, and (8) be a regional fiber arts resource.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education includes (1) monthly program meetings on a wide variety of textile topics from Explorations in Double Weave, The Fibershed Movement: A Local Lens on Sustainable Textiles and Historic Linens: A Weaver's Research Journey, and (2) classes in all textile techniques and for all abilities, including Apron Sewing Workshop, Adventures in Paper Weaving, Sewing with Handmade Fabrics, Batiks Made with Beeswax, Ice Dyeing, Fabric Jewelry Art, Introduction to Basket Weaving, Paper and Fabric Marbling, Love Your Blending Board, Spinning Cotton with a Charka, Beginning Quilting, Felt a Bowl on a Ball, Felt Fabulous Flowers, Fabulous Felt and Nuno-Felt Hats, Beginners Quilt Binding, Carve It, Print It, Repeat It
$28,700 spent$28,333 earned by the program24% of program spendingSEFAA held five exhibitions at the SEFAA Center in 2025 -Betwixt & Between: New Interpretations of Quilting - GSU Students with Jess Jones, Yarn Bombing, Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show, To Speak in Pattern: An Exhibition by Roxie Fricton, 2025 SEFAA Members' Exhibition. We also hosted Intertwined 2025: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Art, a juried exhibit for fiber artists in the southeastern states. The exhibition was held at the Turner Center in Valdosta, GA.
$22,613 spent$2,174 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe SEFAA Shop sells donated textile supplies, including thread, yarn, fiber, fabric, books, notions, patterns, tools, and equipment.
$19,451 spent$15,149 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe SEFAA Center library contains over 3,600 textile-related books, cd's, and videos available to everyone visiting the Center. Individual SEFAA members have library lending privileges.
$19,115 spent16% of program spendingSEFAA Center rentals include multi-purpose space rentals, wet studio rentals, and one artist's studio rental. Individuals and organizations rent the large, multi-purpose space at low rates for textile-related meetings, classes, and workshops They rent our unique, public wet studio for dyeing, felting, surface design, and other wet textile processes. Our artist studio is leased annually and includes a private entrance, a sink, internet and utilities, and round-the-clock access.
$19,080 spent$8,185 earned by the program16% of program spendingSEFAA events included our annual Fiber Flea Market, the Textile Tasting Festival, a Holiday Tea, a retirement party for our Executive Director, Tour Patterns in Abstraction: Black Quilts from the High Museum's Collection, Docent Tour: Threads of Change at MODA, Book Signing with Deborah Held, exhibition opening receptions, bi-weekly Lunchtime Fiber Open Studio sessions, and virtual Book Club, Pricing Parties and Stitching Time gatherings each month.
$9,710 spent$572 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,669.
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 2019 to 2020, from $53k to $100k (+89%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $30.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED’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
SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
58% of SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED is better cushioned 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
Organizations like SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED: 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 SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED?
- SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,471 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $52,471 in grants to SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED?
- THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 4 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