Texas · Nonprofit
THE CEDARS UNION
THE CEDARS UNION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,588 to it, the largest being The Bowdon Family Foundation ($1,703,598). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $823k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $664k
What The Cedars Union does
Mission
To provide studios for artists of all types to work on their craft and to give them tools and resources for them to become self-sufficient foster a collaborative and supportive artist community advance the artist in north texas.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Programs
The Cedars Union provides a hub for promoting the arts through the provision of space and tools to artists. A workspace is provided with tools. An incubator program is provided to teach and train artists and provide for them a supporting atmosphere to encourage their growth in the arts. Artists may explore and grow with the opportunity to work with other artists and gain knowlegde, as well as critiques. Open studio events are hosted to allow the public to view the artists work and to be introduced to the organization's programs.
$169,310 spentPublic programs are hosted that promote and raise awareness of the arts. These include workshops and demonstrations are conducted to educate artists and the general public in various art forms and in the use of available tools for creating art. Programs are also provided to assist the arts community in understanding the business side of the community including programs on creating and operating arts programs to protecting artistic endeavors through copyrights and trademarks.
$175,954 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $372k to $1.1M (+196%).
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.
97% of THE CEDARS UNION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $509k → $248k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CEDARS UNION’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 CEDARS UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2020 98% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of THE CEDARS UNION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of THE CEDARS UNION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CEDARS UNION is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CEDARS UNION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CEDARS UNION: 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 CEDARS UNION?
- THE CEDARS UNION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,588 to it, the largest being The Bowdon Family Foundation ($1,703,598). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CEDARS UNION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,459,588 in grants to THE CEDARS UNION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CEDARS UNION?
- The Bowdon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,703,598 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CEDARS UNION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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