Delaware · Nonprofit
THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC
THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,912 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($247,306). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc does
Mission
The delaware contemporary is a dynamic gathering place for the exploration of new ideas at the intersection of art, design, and technology. The delaware contemporary's compelling exhibitions, innovative educational experiences, and access to the artistic process inspire us to infuse creativity into our daily lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The delaware contemporary offers a wide variety of educational programs. Outreach programs for children include in-school curriculum-related programs. Programs for children held at the delaware contemporary include hands-on art classes, after school art clubs, gallery and studio tours, free family days, and summer camps. Programs for adults include lectures, symposia, art classes, workshops, and gallery tours.introduction of new initiatives to enhance existing programming:contemporary connections: project c: since 1992, contemporary connections has worked with underserved wilmington schools to introduce students and teachers to contemporary art that is connected to core-curricular education standards and reflects ideas, attitudes and issues in culture, society, community and daily life. To extend the reach of our contemporary art resources to schools, educators and the general public who are unable to visit our physical space, project c features curricular tools, lesson plans, videos and virtual tours in the platform of a dynamic online learner space. Content for cc:project c. Is derived from production, studio and exhibition practices of thework by our resident studio…
$64,495 spent$20,127 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe delaware contemporary offers many opportunities for artists to work within its facilities and in the community. Artists enter into agreements with the museum to have year-round working studios on-site and to open them for community events "the studios @" is an initiative designed to promote and strengthen studio artist involvement within our organization and our community. The delaware contemporary accepted and welcomed 4 new studio artists this last year.the studios @ the delaware contemporary: our onsite, 26 mixed-use studio spaces of galleries, artist studios and art incubators, are accessible to the public by appointment and during extended hours at designated events. Our studio space philosophy is rooted in a sense of community where proactivity, public engagement, diversity of ideas, perspectives and artistics practice are honored, respected, and achieved. It is a key goal this year to make the studio a destination for the public, collectors and curators by increasing our collaborative efforts, offering special incentives and heightening our programming. The delaware contemporary continues to add to our artist opportunity offerings. In the last year we have introduced…
$225,242 spent$118,644 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe backbone of the delaware contemporary's offerings are twenty-five plus exhibitions of original contemporary artwork by living artists that are presented in the museum's seven galleries each year and the interpretive materials and programs that are developed to accompany them. The delaware contemporary continues to offer more than 24 exhibitions annually of original contemporary artwork created by the artists of today. Exhibitions: the delaware contemporary presents over 24 exhibitions annually of regionally, nationally and internationally recognized artists in our seven exhibition galleries. Group and solo shows explore topical issues in contemporary art and society. The museum is in a partnership to curate exhibitions for wilmington's city hall. The delaware contemporary has expanded upon our interpretive material and programs through, yet another, new partnership. Partnering with discover, the delaware contemporary introduces the discover lab. As of 2020, the full discover lab initiative is still underway, however the discover art cart has been in use since march.discover lab: art space, art cart and collection: the discover lab intiative is a collection of interpretation…
$62,623 spent$9,568 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$613,543 spent$171,219 earned by the program64% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $965,903.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $4.3M (+9%).
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 18% · 2018 46% · 2019 31% · 2020 47% · 2021 61% · 2022 63% · 2023 41% · 2024 44% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS 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. 6 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
Brett Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Jeff Mariani
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $116k → $75k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 25% · 2022 31% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $400k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC is better cushioned than half 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $218k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$118k
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS 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 DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC?
- THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,912 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($247,306). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,038,912 in grants to THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $247,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 15 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