Virginia · Nonprofit
STUDIO TWO THREE
STUDIO TWO THREE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,435,895 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $738k
What Studio Two Three does
Mission
Studio Two Three empowers artists to make art and make change. Studio Two Three is a nonprofit community print studio and art space, founded in 2009. We believe in radical generosity, the power of community art production and storytelling and that community artists are integral to social and systemic change. We are a busy home to over 130 artist members that runs off of trust and a culture of mutual aid. Members have 24/7 access, share resources and ideas, and collaborate on projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community print shop and artist membership: as a community art organization, we beleive deeply in the power of printmaking to amplify the voices, stories and perspectives of our community. Printmaking is an accessible, affordable means of mass production, and a tool for civic engagement. We provide over 100 artists with 24/7 access to printing presses, darkroom, digital lab, communal tools and workpace, to support art making for personal and social change. We proudly host arts and advocacy projects, including performing statistics (an 8 week summer institute that works with incarcerated youth to creatively reimagine the milk river arts (an ongoing studio program for neurodiverse artists)), richmond public schools (we provide space, educational assistance and print making for their advocacy meetings and events).
$616,430 spent$123,317 earned by the program70% of program spendingWorkshops, artist residency & education: Studio Two Three offers a variety of community classes and workshops throughout the year in printmaking, photography, and other art techniques. Classes are offered on a sliding scale, with scholarship spots available for those in need of financial assistance. Through its make art work programming, the studio also offers artist residency, business classes, career training, professional development and mentorship to artists to help them build sustainable careers. The studio also hosts on-site and off-site field trips for k-12 students, nonprofit community organizations, galleries and museums and other educational venues throughout virginia.
$132,092 spent$79,931 earned by the program15% of program spendingStudio Two Three store, artist markets and artwork sales: the studio store features work by talented local artists who are artist members, teachers, and volunteers. The store provides local artists with the opportunity to sell their work and build their careers in the arts. The studio also features sales of local artists work at vendor markets, their annual winter market and fall art auction.
$88,062 spent$174,781 earned by the program10% of program spendingCommumity printmaking: Studio Two Three brings its mobile print truck into the community in support for free community printmakiing activities. The truck visits festivals, nonprofits, community events, and collaborates with arts and activist communtiies working on social justice issues in the city of richmond and beyond. The studio holds several community printmaking days a month; the content varies each time. Processes include screen printing t-shirts and posters, printing giant letterpress banners, and using the print truck as a mobile darkroom to shot and develop large-frame photgraphic portraits. Community events initiative: launched in 2024, this program has become a cornerstone of Studio Two Threes work. The community events initiative provides a diverse range of arts and cultural initiatives, organizations and projects with free access to Studio Two Threes high capacity event space with a/v, seating and tables and staff support. The program hosts 15+ groups per month, and welcomes 20k+ people to Studio Two Three annually. Events range from square dances to film screenings, nonprofit retreats, civic meetings, plays and live music performances, artist markets and food…
$44,031 spent$21,078 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $880,615.
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 $585k to $2.8M (+378%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2021 28% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of STUDIO TWO THREE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Joseph Papa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $51k → $616k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 STUDIO TWO THREE’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
STUDIO TWO THREE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
58% 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 STUDIO TWO THREE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 66% · 2021 38% · 2022 53% · 2023 65% — 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
22% of STUDIO TWO THREE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
53% of STUDIO TWO THREE'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 $671k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $765k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
STUDIO TWO THREE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STUDIO TWO THREE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 STUDIO TWO THREE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 109 W 15th Street LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE?
- STUDIO TWO THREE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,435,895 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STUDIO TWO THREE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,435,895 in grants to STUDIO TWO THREE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDIO TWO THREE?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STUDIO TWO THREE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 27 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