Texas · Nonprofit
THE LUNAR FOUNDATION
THE LUNAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being POSSIBILITY LABS ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $2k
What The Lunar Foundation does
Mission
Build economic pathways for asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander (aanhpi) artists in central texas through paid showcases, skill-building programs, and cultural events that generate direct artist revenue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nightmarket.fun is The Lunar Foundation's flagship program, an annual aanhpi cultural celebration co-produced with the greater austin asian chamber of commerce (gaacc). The 2025 flagship event took place at lakeline park in cedar park, tx, drawing approximately 2,700 attendees. The event featured over 100 aanhpi artists, performers, food vendors, and cultural entrepreneurs across nine acres of outdoor programming space. Activities included multidisciplinary performances on multiple stages, interactive installations, curated food experiences, family-friendly activities, and thematic zones highlighting aanhpi heritage. The program created paid opportunities for aanhpi artists and small businesses while fostering cross-cultural connection and community engagement.
$153,842 spent99% of program spendingThe Lunar Foundation developed and delivered educational and community engagement programming related to aanhpi public art in austin. In fy2025, this included a community reception celebrating the completion of a public mural series honoring aanhpi historical figures and a public dedication ceremony for the 442nd combat team mural. Tlf's education and engagement activities encompassed community receptions and dedication ceremonies. Mural production was led by a separate for-profit entity; only expenses directly incurred by tlf for its education and engagement activities are reflected here.
$1,800 spent1% of program spendingThe illuminate speaker series provides career development workshops and moderated talks by established professionals to support aanhpi artists in building sustainable creative careers. In fy2025, tlf hosted a free financial literacy workshop for artists led by cpa lisa sretenovic, held at austin community college.
$480 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $156,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $13k to $92k (+610%).
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.
68% of THE LUNAR FOUNDATION’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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE LUNAR FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
THE LUNAR FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LUNAR FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LUNAR FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LUNAR FOUNDATION: 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 LUNAR FOUNDATION?
- THE LUNAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being POSSIBILITY LABS ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LUNAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to THE LUNAR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LUNAR FOUNDATION?
- POSSIBILITY LABS is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LUNAR FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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