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Western States Arts Federation

The WESTERN STATES ARTS FEDERATION is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$289k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$6.4MEducation$228kYouth Development$175kEnvironment$118kHousing & Shelter$116kCommunity Improvement$90kRecreation & Sports$69kReligion$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 79 grants below total $992,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,396,968 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,404,443 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k60 grants · $444k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $260k
  • $250k+1 grant · $289k
$8,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN ARTS ALLIANCE$288,858
ARTS NORTHWEST$47,000
NATIONAL PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$30,000
YVONNE ETAGHENE$15,000
ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO$15,000
MUNDI PROJECT$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$12,000
YOUNG MUSICIANS INC$11,900
AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES$11,750
MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS$11,100
JAZZ IN ARIZONA$11,000
PINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL$11,000
CITY OF LAS VEGAS - DEPT OF PARKS RECREATION AND CULTURAL AFFA$11,000
GILA VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL$10,250
CITY OF FORT COLLINS LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERF ARTS$10,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRAND CONCERTS INC: $6k → 7%SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL: $5k → 12%FREE2LUV INC: $27k → 9%FREE2LUV INC: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IN
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 80 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
146

Total granted

$3.7M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WA
    Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +46% · 28% of their budget
  • MD
    MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $118k · revenue +25%
  • QW
    Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
    2× · 2021–2022 · $94k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PD
    PLAZA DE LA RAZA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $74k · revenue +381%
  • LB
    LITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $74k
  • SI
    STEWART INDIAN SCHOOL CULTURAL & MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $74k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
3
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
4
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
5
Rootstock Arts

Foster professional development of creative artists

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre Artibus

Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…

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7
Cal Center Presents

Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.

Arts & Culture
8
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…

Arts & Culture
9
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
10
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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11
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

—
12
Planet Arts Inc

Cultural and educational performances

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playhouse Arts and the most unlike its peers is MaryDanceStudio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLgbtq+ Community SupportLocal History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Dance Arts OrganizationsImmigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Equine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/253
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,312

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

206 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 206 of the 256 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
201/206
Grantees still filing
136/206
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation — $1,052,914 · Arts & CultureWestern Alliance of Arts Administrators FoundationArts Northwest — $219,535 · Arts & Culture+124 more — $3,706,051 · Arts & Culture+124 moreLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE — $74,000 · OtherSTEWART INDIAN SCHOOL CULTURAL & MUSEUM — $74,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION — $73,839 · OtherCrows Shadow Institute Inc — $63,839 · OtherGALLUPARTS INC — $63,839 · Other+54 more — $1,174,456 · Other+54 moreKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC — $43,839 · Youth DevelopmentKeshet Dance Company — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORSE WARRIORS — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentARK REGIONAL SERVICES INC — $48,839 · Housing & ShelterPEAR — $43,840 · Housing & ShelterTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $24,375 · EducationSTORY CROSSROADS — $12,750 · EducationBAROQUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLORADO — $7,750 · EducationKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC — $38,839 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 · Community ImprovementEPICENTER — $20,000 · Community ImprovementMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$4,978,500Other$1,523,973Youth Development$133,839Housing & Shelter$92,679Education$89,875Community Improvement$78,839Civil Rights$50,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWestern Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation — $1,052,914 over 8y, 28% of budgetArts Northwest — $219,535 over 8y, 33% of budgetRISING YOUTH THEATRE — $122,839 over 2y, 29% of budgetLANGSTON — $117,839 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS — $117,839 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project — $93,839 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetPINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $79,250 over 4y, 17% of budgetINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED — $78,339 over 4y, 16% of budgetPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC — $74,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER — $74,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $73,839 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION — $73,839 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $72,589 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN TIME ARTS — $69,939 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC — $63,839 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCrows Shadow Institute Inc — $63,839 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetGALLUPARTS INC — $63,839 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE — $50,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetXico Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetARK REGIONAL SERVICES INC — $48,839 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO — $48,839 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMY VOICE MUSIC INC — $45,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArt Access — $45,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTerrain Programs — $45,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPEAR — $43,840 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS — $43,839 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetartEquity Community — $43,839 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPlayhouse Arts — $43,839 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $43,839 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetVelocity Dance Center — $43,839 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTEATRO VISION — $43,839 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetQCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture — $43,839 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC — $43,839 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC — $43,839 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company — $43,839 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPLATTEFORUM — $43,839 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetARTOWN — $41,875 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFREE2LUV INC — $41,639 over 2y, 19% of budgetEQUINOX THEATRE COMPANY DBA VERGE THEATER — $38,839 over 1y, 23% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New England Foundatio…ArtsfundJames F & Marion L Mi…M J Murdock Charitabl…Bonfils-Stanton Found…National Performance …The Andrew W Mellon F…Rasmuson FoundationRedlineCharlotte y Martin Fo…Pacificorp Foundation…The Shubert Foundatio…
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA40.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Artsfund · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · National Performance Network Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Redline · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Shubert Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Western States Arts Federation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Craterian Performances Company — 6% of income from government
  • Media-Rites — 4% of income from government
  • Profile Theatre Project — 2% of income from government
  • High Desert Chamber Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boom Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Crows Shadow Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 256 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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