Florida · Nonprofit
VENICE ART CENTER
VENICE ART CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,983 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($148,910). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $842k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Venice Art Center does
Mission
Community-wide program of the arts, providing education, development, and representation of the fine arts to adults, children and senior citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Venice Art Center offers a wide variety of classes for both adults and children that range from painting, ceramics, jewelry, drawing, photography and workshops.
$234,551 spent$324,257 earned by the program46% of program spendingGallery sales - the center offers artists the opportunity to display and sell their artwork to the community through the center.
$84,098 spent$93,906 earned by the program17% of program spendingExhibition - during the course of the year, the center holds multiple exhibitions for artists to display their artwork for the enrichment of the local community.
$187,817 spent$31,535 earned by the program37% of program spendingMiscellaenous activities promoting the art center's services.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,466.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+82%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 23% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of VENICE ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Mary Moscatelli
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $64k → $48k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 VENICE ART CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
VENICE ART CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
76% 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 VENICE ART CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 63% · 2019 57% · 2020 34% · 2021 49% · 2022 40% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of VENICE ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
73% of VENICE ART CENTER'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 $160k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
VENICE ART CENTER's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding VENICE ART CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $55
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 VENICE ART CENTER
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 VENICE ART CENTER: 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 VENICE ART CENTER?
- VENICE ART CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,983 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($148,910). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VENICE ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $602,983 in grants to VENICE ART CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENICE ART CENTER?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $148,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VENICE ART CENTER 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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