Mississippi · Nonprofit
STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL
STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,395 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Starkville Area Arts Council does
Mission
To build a strong, creative, connected community through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Art education & outreach. This program is an umbrella for several initiatives, all related to arts and arts education outreach. Art partners provides a teaching artist to 4 locations in the starkville area to provide extracurricular art enrichment to youth at no cost to the site partner or attendees. Art in the park is a one-day free, hands-on art "festival" for kids and families, where youth are exposed to all art disciplines and get to take home any projects they create. Saac also participates in 2 community events with free art activity booths as a way to spark creative interest in the public.economic development through art. This program is an umbrella for several initiatives, all which support art as business efforts. Art in public places is a reduced-commission art gallery experience hosted in downtown starkville and facilitates the sale of art for artists in multiple shows each fiscal year. Cotton district arts festival. This event is part fundraiser, part program. This festival is one of the largest art festivals in the state, providing 4 stages of music and entertainment for no admission to the public. The festival also awards numerous monetary prizes directly to artists…
$85,033 spentof which $4,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $85,033.
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 2021 to 2022, from $253k to $196k (−22%).
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: 2018 46% · 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 50% · 2022 57% · 2023 77% · 2024 12% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL’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. 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $24k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL’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
STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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
STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
- STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,395 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $126,395 in grants to STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 5 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