Florida · Nonprofit
THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC
THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,918 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($190,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What The Armory Art Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the armory art center is to provide art education to inspire the creation and experience of art in the communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art school: over the course of the year, more than 800 courses are offered through six academic terms and educate more than 3,000 students. On average, 70 unique courses and workshops each term, provide an art education structured visual arts programs in ceramics, jewelry, metal smithing, sculpture (stone and metal), painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, fibers and related arts. Studio art classes are thought by accomplished degreed artists and classes are offered for adults and children ages 5 to 90, year-round with day, evening, and saturday classes offered for adults and youths. The school serves an ethnically and culturally diverse community.
$848,350 spent$1,244,695 earned by the program55% of program spendingMaster artist workshops: the workshops runfor 5 days and are presented by national and international renownedartists. The average number of students attending each workshop is 8.the programs include free public lectures and studio workshops,providing an opportunity for local artists and student artists to meetand learn from internationally recognized artists.
$619,128 spent$908,382 earned by the program40% of program spendingYouth classes and the youth summer camp: youth classes are held throughout the year along with our regular adult programming. The summer campis 10 weeks long, during the summer and serves kindergarten throughhigh school. We offer scholarships to the summer camp students, basedon economic need. They are awarded without regard to race, ethnicity ordemographic profile. During the year contributions by individuals aredesignated for youth scholarships, these funds are maintained in aseparate bank account and released as the scholarships are awarded. Nofunds are distributed to the recipients, the scholarships are tutionfee waivers.
$65,059 spent$95,454 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services
$7,347 spent$10,779 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,539,884.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.7M to $4.3M (+16%).
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 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 7% · 2020 16% · 2021 5% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 17% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC’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. 7 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.
Chief executive
Jill Brown
CEO
Board chair
Nancy Lambreacht
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $89k → $147k.
5 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ARMORY ART CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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 ARMORY ART CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
26% 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 ARMORY ART CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 36% · 2021 17% · 2022 58% · 2023 17% — 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
41% of THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
66% of THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 ARMORY ART CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $5k
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 ARMORY ART 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ARMORY ART 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 THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC?
- THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,918 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($190,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $1,541,918 in grants to THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC?
- CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing