Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART
SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART (Texas) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,728,151 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($521,266). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $0
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $0
What Southwest School of Art does
Mission
The school was acquired by the university of texas - san antonio with the majority of the assets and curriculum being transferred.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2021 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The school was acquired by the university of texas - san antonio with the majority of the assets and curculium being transferred.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The organization's bachelor of fine arts (bfa) degree program began in 2014. It requires students to become deeply involved in the process of making as a form of inquiry and discovery, with equal emphasis on content and craft. The program challenges students to value both tradition and innovation and to graduate with the skills to be working artists and engaged citizens. The school had 32 students at the start of the 2021 - 2022 school year.the organization also operates programs for the community: exhibitions that are free and open to the public, and adult studio program serving over 2,000 annually, several programs for youth, and public programs that include symposia, lectures, events, and the operation of the historic site, the former ursuline convent and academy, where a portion of the school is located.
$4,261,565 spentof which $23,295 as grants$957,481 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,261,565.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $33M to $10M (−68%).
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 7% · 2018 13% · 2019 5% · 2020 18% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
T Randall Cain
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 23 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $387k → $105k.
8 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 SCHOOL OF ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 23% · 2019 36% · 2020 40% · 2021 37% · 2022 32% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
76% of SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $881k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART
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.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: 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 SCHOOL OF ART?
- SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART (Texas) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,728,151 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($521,266). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $2,728,151 in grants to SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART?
- SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $521,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 68 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