Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TWELVE GATES ARTS
TWELVE GATES ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,426 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($116,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $594k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Twelve Gates Arts does
Mission
Twelve Gates Arts, established in 2011, is a non-profit organization based in philadelphia, pennsylvania. The "gates" refer to the fortified gates that walled many ancient cities- inside which lay the heart of each city's art and culture. Twelve Gates Arts aims to promote south & west asian diasporic artistic voices within the local cultural landscape.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Twelve Gates Arts aims to showcase international multidisciplinary arts bound by the sensibilities of a diasporic identity, especially the south asian identity, and to create and promote projects in the community that cross geographic and cultural boundaries.
$204,851 spentof which $4,972 as grants$81,946 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,851.
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 2024 to 2025, from $216k to $275k (+28%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 48% · 2019 43% · 2020 63% · 2021 19% · 2022 12% · 2024 14% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of TWELVE GATES ARTS’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. 1 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
Aisha Zia Khan
Exec dir./pr
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $114k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TWELVE GATES ARTS’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
TWELVE GATES ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
54% 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 TWELVE GATES ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 75% · 2021 79% · 2022 34% · 2023 45% — 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
20% of TWELVE GATES ARTS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of TWELVE GATES ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TWELVE GATES ARTS is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding TWELVE GATES ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 TWELVE GATES ARTS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TWELVE GATES ARTS: 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 TWELVE GATES ARTS?
- TWELVE GATES ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,426 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($116,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TWELVE GATES ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $594,426 in grants to TWELVE GATES ARTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWELVE GATES ARTS?
- Pennsylvania Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWELVE GATES ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 12 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