Arizona · Nonprofit
THE DRAWING STUDIO INC
THE DRAWING STUDIO INC (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,471 to it, the largest being ABM FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $585k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $797k
What The Drawing Studio Inc does
Mission
The drawing studio, inc. Is a visual arts center in tucson, az. The drawing studio inspires people of all ages and backgrounds to embrace art practice as a pathway to personal growth and healthy community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult education program: our adult education program has a yearly enrollment of 1500 in 200+ courses and workshops offered in our main studio in tucson arizona. Highly skilled teaching artists offer fundamental course sequences in drawing and design as well as classes and workshops in a wide variety of media and genres including painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed-media, abstract, plein air, figure/portrait), drawing (pastel, charcoal, ink, mixed media, plein air, figure/portrait), printmaking (intaglio, mono type, relief), and book arts. We offer ongoing professional development activities for our teaching artists, all of whom engage in their own professional art practice.
$238,647 spent$338,990 earned by the program60% of program spendingYouth education program: since 2002, we have conducted an intensive summer studio arts immersion program and today serve ages 6-17. We also conduct weekend classes throughout the school year. These programs serve 200+ youth annually. Through generous private support, we are able to provide reduced or waived tuition for 35 to 40% of our students in the youth education program.
$99,436 spent$141,246 earned by the program25% of program spendingPartnership program: the drawing studios partnership program reaches 400 plus individuals per year with free art experiences and art instruction. We work with seniors, veterans, refugees, people who are homeless, and others who cannot access our main studio location at libraries, senior and neighborhood centers. 100% of these programs are free and supported by philanthropy. The artmoves program utilizes visual instruction as a means of reaching and engaging those who have experienced trauma. The student opportunity artist-in-residence (soar) program places professional teaching artists directly into tucson schools that no longer have a formal arts program or have seen it diminished. The drawing studios be readi program (race, equity, access, diversity, and inclusion) is a free series taught by black, indigenous, people of color (bipoc) and queer folx, people with disabilities, and others underrepresented in our community. Our aim is to listen, learn, and grow alongside those of us with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Be readi creates that space for artmaking together.
$59,662 spent$84,747 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $397,745.
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 $1.1M to $1.6M (+39%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of THE DRAWING STUDIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Maggie Rush-Miller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $65k → $158k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DRAWING STUDIO 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 DRAWING STUDIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 DRAWING STUDIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 85% · 2019 98% · 2020 82% · 2021 39% · 2022 74% · 2023 63% — 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
43% of THE DRAWING STUDIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
55% of THE DRAWING STUDIO INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 DRAWING STUDIO INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE DRAWING STUDIO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 DRAWING STUDIO 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DRAWING STUDIO INC?
- THE DRAWING STUDIO INC (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,471 to it, the largest being ABM FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DRAWING STUDIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,161,471 in grants to THE DRAWING STUDIO INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DRAWING STUDIO INC?
- ABM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DRAWING STUDIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 14 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