Florida · Nonprofit
ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC
ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,435 to it, the largest being PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $771k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $983k
- Net assets
- $294k
What St Petersburg Arts Alliance Inc does
Mission
St Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving the arts and cultural community: advocating for the arts; facilitating the growth of the arts community; and driving arts-related economics development in St Petersburg and supporting in-school, after-school, and professional education programs. The umbrella signifies that all arts disciplines are included from fine arts to performing arts, and produces various programs to serve them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Arts Programs including the SHINE MURAL ARTS FESTIVAL, an art project that illuminates the power of art in public spaces by revitalizing areas, inspiring dialogue and uniting our community while cultivating new standards of artistic excellence and reflecting St. Pete's creative and vibrant spirit.
$287,409 spent$44,288 earned by the program43% of program spendingArts Education Programs including ACE - Arts for a Complete Education - supporting arts education in-school, after-school and professional education; FUNDING FUTURES and LIFT Scholarship awards given to individual students and teaching facilities and art organizations to support classes for students with financial needs who are nominated by community arts organizations; ARTS BUSINESS EDUCATION providing continuing education virtual workshops, teaching the business side to artists and art related organizations.
$39,901 spent$26,227 earned by the program6% of program spendingWith funds raised locally through sponsorships, SPAA produced a Studio, Gallery, Museum & Performing Arts Guide to assist finding local art and creative business throughout St. Petersburg's seven arts districts. The free guides are distributed at many museums, galleries, hotels, restaurants, tourism spots and businesses around town.
$8,301 spent$5,705 earned by the program1% of program spendingAdditional program services include the Art Walk, Kahwa Endowment Program and Murals in Mind that represents arts for mental health bring our community artists together to support and uplift wellness for all.
$329,446 spent50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $665,057.
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 2023 to 2024, from $553k to $371k (−33%).
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 30% · 2018 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Chief executive
Terry Marks
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Ryan Griffin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $39k → $110k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 52% · 2019 31% · 2020 53% · 2021 18% · 2022 45% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
52% of ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $473k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $511k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than half of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $119k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- Department of Commerce$24k
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 ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC: 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 ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
- ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,435 to it, the largest being PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $983,435 in grants to ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
- PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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