Alabama · Nonprofit
THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC
THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,640 to it, the largest being THE HUGH KAUL FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $797k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Art Fund of Birmingham Inc does
Mission
To support the birmingham museum of art (bma) through art acquisition, education, and other bma special projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support the birmingham museum of art (bma) through art acquisition, education, and other bma special projects.
$790,435 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $790,435.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.9M to $8.5M (+23%).
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.
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.
Chief executive
Graham Boettcher
Museum director and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $8k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM 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
THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 74% · 2021 92% · 2022 88% · 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
99% of THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.
Government funding THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
- Department of the Interior$15k
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 ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Birmingham Museum of Art · exempt
- Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust · exempt
- Birmingham Museum of Art Foundation · exempt
- Bma Support Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM 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 ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
- THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,640 to it, the largest being THE HUGH KAUL FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,869,640 in grants to THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
- THE HUGH KAUL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC 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 6 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