Texas · Nonprofit
WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER
WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514,288 to it, the largest being Flora Cameron Foundation ($3,752,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Waco-McLennan Countylocalportfolio match
- Ascension Providencelocalportfolio match
- Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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 13% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 72% · 2021 7% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $48k → $69k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER’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
WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 82% · 2021 66% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% — 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
56% of WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
100% of WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $565k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Waco-McLennan Countylocalportfolio matchTX · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ascension Providencelocalportfolio matchMO · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Clifton Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bowen Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Higher Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation InclocalTX · funds 9 organizations near you
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterlocalTX · funds 10 organizations near you
- Magnolia FoundationlocalTX · funds 20 organizations near you
- Hobbs FoundationlocalTX · funds 15 organizations near you
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 WACO CREATIVE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER?
- WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514,288 to it, the largest being Flora Cameron Foundation ($3,752,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,514,288 in grants to WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER?
- Flora Cameron Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,752,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing