Alabama · Nonprofit
THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC
THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,485 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($32,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $97k
What The Firehouse Community Arts Center LLC does
Mission
The firehouse is a creative learning space in the avondale neighborhood of birmingham, alabama dedicated to the enrichment of the city's musical community. We offer a variety of music education programs, with scholarship opportunities for the musically-underserved students in the community, as well as sustainable employment for birmingham's working musicians
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Currently the firehouse teaches 106 young people (ages 5-18) one on one music lessons in guitar, bass guitar, piano, and drums. During 2024, 37 young people received scholarships and learned at a reduced cost, and ten learned at no cost. In 2024, the firehouse provided 3,303 total music lessons. Of those, 964 lessons were provided either at no charge or at a reduced cost to the client. The value of scholarships given was approximately $33,400 in 2024. The lesson program is central to the firehouse's mission and accounts for more than 60% of the organization's income and expenses.
$149,133 spent$121,673 earned by the program80% of program spendingAs an approved strategic partner of the birmingham city schools and the avondale elementary pta, the firehouse offered intersession music education programs and an after-school music club for 4th and 5th grade students at avondale elementary. Using an interest-based approach, firehouse teaching artists taught groups of up to 25 students guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Participants chose and performed songs as a group at three school assemblies. The program aims to promote confidence, to create positive behaviors, to improve student success, and to increase awareness of the firehouse's programs and scholarships.
$18,642 spent$7,550 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe firehouse partnered with knowledge, rhythm, and understanding (kru), a nonprofit hip hop education program to host more than 25 after-school pizza parties. During each session, the firehouse and kru welcomed young people and families from avondale and surrounding areas to learn the core elements of hip hop: rapping and lyric-writing, beat-making, and break dancing. Additionally, participants had access to learn and explore guitar, bass, and drums under the guidance of firehouse teaching artists. Post office pies and davenport's provided pizza, and buffalo rock bottling co provided the drinks. This program was supported in part by the alabama state council on the arts.
$18,641 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $55k to $102k (+85%).
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.
56% of THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Chris Hines
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $27k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC’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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
32% 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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC has grown faster than three-quarters 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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC: 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 FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC?
- THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,485 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($32,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $100,485 in grants to THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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