Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT
SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,549 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($32,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Southwest Alternate Media Project does
Mission
To promote the creation and appreciation of film and new media as art forms of it's diverse, multicultural community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Swamp's fiscal sponsorship program allows media artists to access foundation and government grant funding that may only be accessible to nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored projects. Swamp does not fund the sponsored projects, but acts as a nonprofit umbrella organization for media artists who are seeking to raise funds and require nonprofit status to do so.
$6,583 spent10% of program spendingOther programs promote film as an art, provide public awareness about Southwest Alternate Media Project and make information available to aspiring filmmakers.
$56,791 spent90% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,374.
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 $18k to $13k (−24%).
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.
74% of SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Alfred Cervantes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT’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
SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
95% 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 SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT: 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 SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT?
- SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,549 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($32,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,549 in grants to SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $32,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECT 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing