Washington · Nonprofit
Sundiata African American Cultural
Sundiata African American Cultural (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Sundiata African American Cultural does
Mission
SAACA provides cultural community black art musical festival free to the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Festival Sundiata is a celebration of music art history fashion education culture and family of the Black American diaspora. Around 9,000 to 10,000 people attend the festival weekend.
$0 spentPresenting youth drill and dance teams childrens activities African drum circles Tuskegee Airmen Buffalo Soldiers and the American history traveling museum The Unspoken Truths. Seattle Childrens museum.
$0 spentFestival Sundiata featuring local bands and International names lined up for the most exciting events of the year.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $23k (+31%).
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.
91% of Sundiata African American Cultural’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Grady Austin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Sundiata African American Cultural’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
Sundiata African American Cultural leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Sundiata African American Cultural.
“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
100% of Sundiata African American Cultural's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Sundiata African American Cultural's revenue fell 16% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sundiata African American Cultural?
- Sundiata African American Cultural (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sundiata African American Cultural have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,500 in grants to Sundiata African American Cultural, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sundiata African American Cultural?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sundiata African American Cultural find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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