Alabama · Nonprofit
THE ARTS COUNCIL INC
THE ARTS COUNCIL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,824 to it, the largest being The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation ($20,376). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Arts Council Inc does
Mission
Arts huntsville stimulates and supoorts community creativity and engagement by advancing the arts, entertainmewnt and culture to enrich quality of life metropolitan region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Panoply of the arts, concerts in the park, community wide promotion in all areas of the arts through performances and exhibitions of local artists and groups.
$810,306 spent$891,433 earned by the program32% of program spendingArts in education, promotion of cultural arts to elementary and high school students through teacher development and promotion at area classes, camps and hands-on arts opportunities
$196,532 spent$196,685 earned by the program8% of program spendingAdvocacy, provide a library of information about the arts and sponsor seminars and workshops; render advice to member organizations about programming events.
$499,222 spentof which $331,037 as grants$325,000 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther programs
$1,057,197 spent$1,531,457 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,563,257.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+34%).
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 31% · 2018 29% · 2019 35% · 2020 65% · 2021 40% · 2022 65% · 2023 60% · 2024 60% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of THE ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $276k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ARTS COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ARTS COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 ARTS COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 2023 90% — 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
75% of THE ARTS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
62% of THE ARTS COUNCIL 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. $15k 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
THE ARTS COUNCIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE ARTS COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $425k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$425k
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 ARTS COUNCIL 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ARTS COUNCIL 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 ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- THE ARTS COUNCIL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,824 to it, the largest being The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation ($20,376). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $49,824 in grants to THE ARTS COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,376 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARTS COUNCIL 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 9 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