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WHYARTS INC

WHYARTS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,278,225 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($868,029). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$627k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$240k
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Whyarts Inc does

Mission

Support of arts and arts community in an effort to provide arts awareness, festival planning and support of arts initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Costs for artist fees and related supplies to offer arts programs

    $615,463 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $615,463.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($442k) Expenses 100 ($410k) Net assets 100 ($257k)2018 Revenue 97 ($430k) Expenses 115 ($471k) Net assets 84 ($216k)2019 Revenue 85 ($375k) Expenses 118 ($482k) Net assets 43 ($109k)2022 Revenue 95 ($422k) Expenses 108 ($443k) Net assets 86 ($222k)2023 Revenue 131 ($578k) Expenses 136 ($559k) Net assets 94 ($242k)2024 Revenue 135 ($596k) Expenses 147 ($604k) Net assets 91 ($234k)2025 Revenue 142 ($627k) Expenses 152 ($622k) Net assets 93 ($240k)
2017201820192022202320242025
Revenue (142)Expenses (152)Net assets (93)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 2022 to 2023, from $329k to $242k (−26%).

$257k
$257k
$184k
$329k
$242k
$237k
$241k
2017201820192022202320242025
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.

2017
2018
2019
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of WHYARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
−$41k
’18
−$107k
’19
−$21k
’22
$20k
’23
−$8k
’24
$5k
’25
3.1
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

Tiffiny Clifton

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

2017201820192022202320242025
Listed13131315161511
Joined·+0+0·+4+4+1
No longer listed·00·355
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $184k → $262k.

5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WHYARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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

WHYARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 WHYARTS INC.

38%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 93% · 2019 80% · 2020 56% · 2021 34% · 2022 36% · 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 WHYARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of WHYARTS INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

PA
NE
MO
NC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

WHYARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding WHYARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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 WHYARTS INC

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In Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NE

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHYARTS INC: 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 WHYARTS INC?
WHYARTS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,278,225 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($868,029). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WHYARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,278,225 in grants to WHYARTS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHYARTS INC?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $868,029 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHYARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 26 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