Washington · Nonprofit
TACOMA ARTS LIVE
TACOMA ARTS LIVE (Washington) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,281,912 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($696,421). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Tacoma Arts Live does
Mission
Tacoma Arts Lives mission is to energize our community through performance and to celebrate all cultures and enjoy our shared prosperity. Developing youth is a main program element through a whold-child lens with emphasis on social-emotional learning and civil rights education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tacoma Arts Live served 99,957 patrons in its fiscal year 2024/2025 season. Services provided by Tacoma Arts Live included live performances, festivals, markets, events, education through the arts programs, virtual programming, and small business incubation services. We delivered education through the arts programs to public schools, private schools, independent schools, and community partners throughout the south sound region of washington state. Tacoma Arts Live also collaborates with local organizations to serve multiple community members through outdoor events and in various venues.
$3,825,214 spent$2,090,211 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,825,214.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $11M (+185%).
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 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 54% · 2023 15% · 2024 35% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of TACOMA ARTS LIVE’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 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.
Board chair
Lisa Kremer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $218k → $549k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $593k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Tacoma Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TACOMA ARTS LIVE raised.
From the IRS filings of TACOMA ARTS LIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
TACOMA ARTS LIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
31% 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 TACOMA ARTS LIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 70% · 2019 41% · 2020 54% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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
44% of TACOMA ARTS LIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
83% of TACOMA ARTS LIVE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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
TACOMA ARTS LIVE is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TACOMA ARTS LIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.1M
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 TACOMA ARTS LIVE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Tal Venues · disregarded
- Friends of Tacoma Arts Live · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TACOMA ARTS LIVE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE?
- TACOMA ARTS LIVE (Washington) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,281,912 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($696,421). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TACOMA ARTS LIVE have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,281,912 in grants to TACOMA ARTS LIVE, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TACOMA ARTS LIVE?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $696,421 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TACOMA ARTS LIVE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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