Kentucky · Nonprofit
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,250 to it, the largest being JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Steam Exchange Community Arts Center Inc does
Mission
To facilitate passion-driven learning experiences where individuals explore the world, themselves, and the arts through creative play and production. We use the arts to teach concepts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(steam). We work toward greater equity in our community by amplifying voice, showcasing creativity and leadership, and co-creating collaborative, public art with youth of color and low-income youth. Dialogue with people who live, learn, work or worship in smoketown directly shapes workshop content and community projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Smoketown free afterschool & summer programs - steam exchange provides free, safe, structured afterschool and summer programs for smoketown youth ages 5-21. We recruit youth not already involved in out-of-school activities, employ neighborhood youth, ages 14-21, as student interns who help in all aspects of program facilitation & maintaining our center. Interns gain responsibility and leadership opportunities, train to produce professional quality screen printed products, assist in grant writing and grant ideation, and help prepare materials and teach classes. Over the years,stex has taught classes in steam, screen printing, bookbinding, painting, textiles, stop motion, computer programming, sculpture and more. We facilitate camps, host internships each summer. Classes change yearly based on youth interests and needs. Organizational partnerships greatly enhance our program. Steam adventrues(with jefferson memorial forest) takes bi-weekly field trips to the forest for hikes, rock climbing, and wildlife study as well as a week-long summer camp. Rhythm science sound partners to lead workshops in deejaying, music mixing and recording. Fashion designer, kara mason, helps teach our…
$104,821 spent66% of program spendingCommunity wide programs & services - steam exhcange engages community members across kentuckiana in artmaking through workshops, events and community and commercial screen printing. We teach single workshops and multi-week workshop series exploring a variety of media, including classes in steam, screen printing, bookbinding, painting, textiles, stop motion, computer programming, sculpture and more. We facilitate on-site screen printing for community events, schools, organizations, businesses or personal events where participants screen print their own posters, t- shirts, or tote bags. Our community and commercial screen printing shop provides and opportunity for the greater louisville community to utilize steam exchange's screen printing equipment and expretise. Our shop has been utilized by a variety of people, from individuals creating their own clothing lines, to bands, to small businesses. Individuals, businesses and organizations may also hire steam exchange for commercial screen printing; we screen print apparel, totes, posters, and yard signs. All profit from commercial screen printing jobs goes toward funding our smoketown free afterschool and summer programs. Program…
$53,913 spent$51,679 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,734.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $213k to $336k (+58%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $62k → $115k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC’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
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 40% · 2023 87% — 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
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.
Organizations like STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC?
- STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,250 to it, the largest being JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $252,250 in grants to STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC?
- JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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