Hawaii · Nonprofit
The ARTS at Marks Garage
The ARTS at Marks Garage (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,547 to it, the largest being JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $-25000
What The ARTS at Marks Garage does
Mission
Supporting and promoting the arts by providing a safe and inclusive space for individuals and organizations to create, collaborate, experiment, and educate. Revitalizing the historic arts district visually and economically through artistic activities and expression that enhance the quality of life in Honolulu.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We have held 12 public gallery exhibitions, 5 months of performances (due to numerous Covid-19 shutdowns), fostered small business incubator, renewed website, transformed space with upgrades and reconfiguring.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $29k to $73k (+152%).
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 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $3k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ARTS at Marks Garage’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 ARTS at Marks Garage leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 ARTS at Marks Garage.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 99% — 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
The ARTS at Marks Garage draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like The ARTS at Marks Garage
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ARTS at Marks Garage: 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 ARTS at Marks Garage?
- The ARTS at Marks Garage (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,547 to it, the largest being JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The ARTS at Marks Garage have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $52,547 in grants to The ARTS at Marks Garage, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The ARTS at Marks Garage?
- JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The ARTS at Marks Garage find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 7 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