Arkansas · Nonprofit
THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE
THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,000 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($165,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $38k
What The Fayetteville Art Alliance does
Mission
Art Ventures is an incubator for diverse local/regional artists and conducts K-12 art education/exhibitions, curatorial internships, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Art Ventures has fostered substantive advancements in the practices and lives of the diversity of artists we champion into the mainstream of NWA arts. Our efforts are deep, inculcating our mission and vision that art is for everyone through AV's K-12 Gallery Initiative providing programming for both the public school system and the home-schooled students through the gallery phase of art practice, the Sharon Killian Curatorial Internship in association with UA School of Art and the NWA Community College, and community collaborations to provide additional services to marginalized communities. Our talks and receptions are scheduled monthly both in our main gallery and off-site exhibition sites which include Theatre Squared, Fayetteville Public Library, Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, and Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Art Ventures impacts the cultural arts and the ecosystem in a continuum that has inclusion and diversity at its base and we are proud of this achievement for local communities, for the NWA region, and for Arkansas.
$259,949 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $259,949.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $80k to $240k (+202%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 0% · 2023 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE’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. 3 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $125k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE’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 FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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
100% of THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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 FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE: 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 FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE?
- THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,000 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($165,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $197,000 in grants to THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FAYETTEVILLE ART ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3 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