Wisconsin · Nonprofit
TBEY ARTS CENTER INC
TBEY ARTS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,397 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($156,500). 9 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 FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $324k
- Net assets
- $357k
What Tbey Arts Center Inc does
Mission
Tbey arts center strengthens youth and young adults through exposure to the arts and opportunities for creative expression. Youth and young adults ages 2-19 receive professional arts instruciton, enjoy performances & exhibits, receive tutoring, mentoring, and coaching to achieve academically and pursue their interest in the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts education programming (including tbey tiny's, asap, and summer arts camp):during the fiscal year, tbey arts center, inc. Served over 700 youth across southeastern wisconsin through high-quality, age-appropriate arts education. Our programs provided creative development opportunities in theatre, dance, visual arts, and music, with a special emphasis on reaching underserved communities. Notably, our tbey tiny's program expanded to include early childhood participants aged k3-4, building foundational creative and social-emotional skills. Our summer arts camp offers arts enrichment workshops, field trips, and culminating showcases that engaged families and the broader community.
$225,015 spent$247,992 earned by the program100% of program spendingArtreach community engagement program:tbey's artreach program brought arts education directly into schools, community centers, and after-school sites across milwaukee, supporting arts access where it's needed most. This year, we partnered with 12 schools and 4 community centers, delivering over 300 hours of instruction and reaching approximately 2,000 students. The program aligned with academic standards and supported youth development goals. It was particularly instrumental in re-engaging students post-pandemic, using creative expression to build confidence, improve attendance, and foster resilience.
Youth productions and community performances:tbey continued its tradition of youth-led productions and public performances, providing young artists with professional stage experiences while enriching milwaukee's cultural landscape. Over 40 students participated in our annual theatre and dance productions, with performances attracting more than 700 attendees. These showcases provided vital exposure for young talent and fostered intergenerational community engagement. Our capstone event, the stargazed benefit concert, highlighted student and alumni performers alongside professional artists, raising essential funds and celebrating our 25th anniversary milestone.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,015.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $149k to $248k (+67%).
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: 2019 52% · 2020 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of TBEY ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Contessa Lobley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $32k.
3 of 13 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 TBEY 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
TBEY ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 TBEY ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 83% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of TBEY ARTS CENTER INC'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
53% of TBEY ARTS CENTER INC'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 $153k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k 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.
Against its field
TBEY ARTS CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TBEY 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TBEY ARTS CENTER INC: 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 TBEY ARTS CENTER INC?
- TBEY ARTS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,397 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($156,500). 9 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 TBEY ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $324,397 in grants to TBEY ARTS CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TBEY ARTS CENTER INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $156,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TBEY ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 13 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