Virginia · Nonprofit
TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH
TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,582 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($87,350). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $553k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Tidewater Arts Outreach does
Mission
The mission of Tidewater Arts Outreach (tao) to bring joy to older adults and those living in isolating circumstances and enhance their well-being through creative engagement with the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tao collaborates with senior living communities, hospitals, shelters, libraries, and more to bring happiness and wellness to older adults and those facing isolation due to chronic health challenges, disability, or socioeconomic factors. Our sessions, usually 55-70 minutes long, are led by talented artists who specialize in interactive music, performing arts, literary arts, and visual arts disciplines proved by research to positively impact the wellness of older and isolated adults.
$394,268 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $394,268.
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 $111k to $26k (−77%).
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: 2019 30% · 2020 49% · 2021 48% · 2022 27% · 2023 34% · 2024 22% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH’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. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $37k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH’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
TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
74% 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 TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 31% · 2020 52% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH: 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 TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH?
- TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,582 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($87,350). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $552,582 in grants to TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing