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SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$49k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$174k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Sylacauga Area Council on the Arts does

Mission

Promote and sponsor cultural arts and humanities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Marble celebration: historical and cultural event for the community

    $32,269 spent
    79% of program spending
  2. Various grants/donations to benefit community

    $2,462 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Various grants/donations to benefit area school children

    $6,250 spent
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,981.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($106k)2018 Revenue 103 ($54k) Expenses 116 ($44k) Net assets 110 ($117k)2019 Revenue 123 ($64k) Expenses 135 ($51k) Net assets 122 ($130k)2020 Revenue 111 ($58k) Expenses 110 ($42k) Net assets 138 ($147k)2021 Revenue 93 ($49k) Expenses 88 ($33k) Net assets 153 ($162k)2022 Revenue 89 ($47k) Expenses 106 ($40k) Net assets 159 ($169k)2023 Revenue 104 ($54k) Expenses 128 ($48k) Net assets 165 ($175k)2024 Revenue 101 ($53k) Expenses 143 ($54k) Net assets 164 ($174k)2025 Revenue 95 ($49k) Expenses 130 ($49k) Net assets 164 ($174k)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (130)Net assets (164)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $130k to $147k (+13%).

$106k
$117k
$130k
$147k
$162k
$169k
$175k
$174k
$174k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$10k
’18
$13k
’19
$17k
’20
$16k
’21
$7k
’22
$6k
’23
−$1k
’24
$484
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS’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

SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

73% 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 SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS?
SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,000 in grants to SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS?
ALABAMA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SYLACAUGA AREA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 3 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