Washington · Nonprofit
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,328,747 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($950,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $188k
What The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc does
Mission
To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts2Work: Arts2Work is a creative workforce initiative sponsored by The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, winner of the MIT SOLVE Prize for Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US. Arts2Work includes the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship program in Media Arts + Creative Technologies, including new career pipelines for Multimedia Producers, Digital Video Editors and Multimedia Graphic Designers. It provides new infrastructure, equity and economic sustainability for artists and creative workers, businesses, organizations, communities and institutions across the US. Arts2Work prioritizes equity and inclusion with special outreach to BIPOC, low-income workers, women, youth, veterans and disabled communities. (Continued on Schedule O)The ecosystem of Arts2Work includes a national network of Creative Studios and Training Centers, Pre-Apprenticeship programs that include paid learn-on-the-job experiences, Registered Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship Labs and an online Learning Hub with free tutorials, networking and access to mentorship for anyone seeking to build a career in media. The Alliance sponsors Arts2Work-affiliated programs in Baltimore,…
$524,419 spent$153,938 earned by the program80% of program spendingGeneral Program and Conference: Under General Program services, we offer a Digital Resource Library, an online Screening Room, the Storytelling Matters Blog, a Job Board, a monthly E-Bulletin and an Arts2Work Newsletter. We also offer a limited Fiscal Sponsorship program for invited projects that align with the Alliance mission. We are currently the fiscal sponsors for a groundbreaking documentary film about slavery and reparations in America entitled Acts of Reparation, by award-winning filmmakers Macky Alston and Selina Davidson. We also use General Program for pilot programs that serve the media arts field that do not yet fall under existing program headings.
$109,865 spent$3,866 earned by the program17% of program spendingAlliance Youth Media Network: The Alliance Youth Media Network programs convene, connect, nurture and sustain strategic development in the Youth Media field. We support innovative and emerging models of practice within the fields of youth media, creative youth development, and media literacy. We do this through the collaborative production of a youth media magazine, ongoing Collective Action work, hosting national Video Roundtables and a global Youth Media Summit, mentoring a cohort of Youth Media Fellows each year, and supporting the leaders of a national network of youth media organizations. All of the programs of our Youth Media Network use an intergenerational, co-creative approach as a means to demonstrate the possibilities and impact of a range of youth and elders working collaboratively and (Continued on Schedule O) inclusively, interrogating power and privilege across program areas, with the goal of providing new models and emerging practices for the field. We also offer the Unlocking Creativity Community of Practice, a regular gathering of local and national media organizations that work intentionally with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and…
$21,979 spentof which $16,750 as grants$6,771 earned by the program3% of program spendingInnovation Studio: The Innovation Studio program supports the development of unique interactive digital media projects, platforms, tools and approaches to storytelling designed to foster strong, resilient creative communities. We think in systems, build replicable models, and take risks with new technology. Our teams are diverse, intergenerational and collaborative. Strategy, design, development, and prototyping in the Alliance Innovation Studio is customized uniquely for each project. We bring together a team of creative and tech experts based on the needs of the project; the central requirement for inclusion in the Innovation Studio is a commitment to sharing out the development process with the field and making the project available for replication in diverse communities and contexts. In every case, we will publish the code, share the data and provide templates or toolkits to enable meaningful and effective adoption. Projects developed in the Innovation Studio include the Open Archive Initiative, Alliance XR Gallery and Futures We Dream, a national creative collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.
$47 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $656,310.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $547k (−54%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Wendy Levy
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $154k.
13 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% — 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
14% of The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc'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
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $694k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$190k
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 The Alliance For Media Arts Culture 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Alliance For Media Arts Culture 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 The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc?
- The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,328,747 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($950,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,328,747 in grants to The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 31 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