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Venetian Arts Society Inc

Venetian Arts Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$200k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$244k
Net assets
$5k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Venetian Arts Society Inc does

Mission

GENVAS, Generation Venetian Arts Society, is committed to nurturing the emotional, mental, & spiritual well-being of all people through purposeful, thought provoking, & enlightening artistic experiences while simultaneously celebrating the multi-cultural and inter-generational diversity of the SFL community. Our collaborative projects are educational & social art experiences that promote intimate & interactive participation with the audience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. From South Florida, with Love! - (FSFWL) Our newest series was inspired by the United Nations Declaration of United Rights written in 1948 following the end of World War II. The document states that all human beings are created equal in dignity & rights. This series debuted in 2024 & features Artists representing people from all communities who will share their experiences overcoming adversity & challenges and how those experiences impacted them personally & professionally. Our intent is for all the audience to be exposed to individuals they would not otherwise encounter and to highlight our South Florida as the international, sophisticated, diverse, & unified community that it is. In May of 2025, nine :120 -:195 second PSAs, an 18 minute compilation long reel, & nine episodes will be released to select digital platforms.

    $26,375 spent$14,266 earned by the program
    15% of program spending
  2. South Florida Journeys - Developed in 2024, South Florida Journeys (SFJ) employs video storytelling to explore the people, places, & programs across all sectors that make our community dynamic. The need for this programming is varied. Broward offers a quality lifestyle; promotes entrepreneurism & encourages economic development. Neighborhoods are diverse & locals are engaging w/ inspiring stories worth telling. Today, societal & governmental constructs, designed to offer safety nets & services, are being curtailed or eliminated creating stressors & fear. In 2024, the CDC reported 1 in 5 adults experienced symptoms of anxiety & depression. Deaths from drugs, alcohol, & suicide more than doubled between 2000 - 2017 & continue to rise. Environmental concerns challenge us & WLRN reported that more than 1.2M SFL people are facing food insecurity. Video storytelling provides a cost effective way to quickly spread good news, information, assistance, & hope. Our project provides collaborative opportunities between a large number of SFL corporations, individuals, institutions, & organizations. Each video focuses on a specific topic aimed at the general population or subsegments. Emphasis…

    $110,593 spent
    64% of program spending
  3. PRIDE in Progress: Shaping Legacy...past, present, and future! (PIP) was created in 2024 and is an original festival debuting September 19 - 20, 2025 at three greater Fort Lauderdale venues. Funded in part by Broward County Cultural Council, festival events focus on American LGBTQ history, the sanctity of same sex marriage and the beauty of all families regardless of their composition. Events include opening night reception with round table Q&A, a lecture & book reading and Saturday Salon concert. PIP represents our continued commitment to utilizing the arts to share powerful messages of love, hope, and acceptance for all human beings - regardless of their sex, race, creed, religious and/or sexual orientation. Video storytellingwill be used to document events & later share with the public. Programs showcase the contributions the LGBTQ community have made to American society. Performers, vendors & venues were selected for their commitment to the LGBTQ community and the program is open to all area tourists & residents interested in supporting and/or learning more about the challenges & triumphs faced by the LGBTQ community & the people who value them.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services

    $36,502 spent
    21% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,470.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($191k) Net assets -342876 ($-126864)2021 Revenue 185 ($158k) Expenses 71 ($136k) Net assets -6527 ($-2415)2022 Revenue 183 ($156k) Expenses 80 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($37)2023 Revenue 258 ($220k) Expenses 114 ($218k) Net assets 5097 ($2k)2024 Revenue 235 ($200k) Expenses 103 ($197k) Net assets 13432 ($5k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (235)Expenses (103)Net assets (13432)Peer revenue range

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 $2k to $5k (+164%).

$565
$1k
$37
$2k
$5k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Venetian Arts Society Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$106k
’20
$22k
’21
$2k
’22
$2k
’23
$3k
’24
0.3
months of
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

William Riddle

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed11
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $80k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Venetian Arts Society Inc’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

Venetian Arts Society Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 Venetian Arts Society Inc.

51%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 75% — 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

88% of Venetian Arts Society Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

WI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Venetian Arts Society Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Venetian Arts Society Inc?
Venetian Arts Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Venetian Arts Society Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $243,500 in grants to Venetian Arts Society Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Venetian Arts Society Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Venetian Arts Society Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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