· Public charity
Flagstaff Arts Council Inc
The flagstaff arts council promotes, strengthens and advocates for the arts in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $482,350 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $499,119 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,769 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $35,800 |
| FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $29,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,000 |
| WILLOW BEND ENVIRONMENTAL | $26,200 |
| FLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRDT MUSI | $26,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA | $25,000 |
| THEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY | $23,000 |
| TYNKERTOPIA | $22,100 |
| THREADED TOGETHER | $21,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,400 |
| CANYON MOVEMENT COMPANY | $14,300 |
| FLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE | $13,500 |
| GREG HILL FUND | $11,550 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FSFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $169k · revenue +10%
- TTTHEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY7× · 2019–2025 · $159k · revenue +17%
- FFFLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +50% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- TTThreaded Togetherone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +2%
- DADARKSKY AERIALone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -41%
- CCCHILDREN'S CHORALE OF FLAGSTAFF - FLAGSTAFF Y3× · 2019–2024 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Sedona Symphony is committed to enriching the quality of life of our Northern Arizona community through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires. From timeless classics to bold contemporary works, the…
The Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff MOCAF is an artist-run, artist-supporting organization dedicated to promoting and developing emerging and established artists of all mediums in northern Arizona: providing the tools, space, and…
Raise awareness on Indian Classical performing arts by conducting workshops lecture demostrations and presenting concerts that is open to all audience
Alaska residents benefit from free public admission to an arts and culture festival; the week-long festival encourages non-professional musicians and performers, and has been operating since 1975.
Our mission is to provide a truly unique performing arts experience to the West Valley. Through high quality productions in the areas of music, dance, and theatre, we can empower artists of all ages to pursue their dreams in the performing…
The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural…
The mission of Ajo Council for the Fine Arts is to bring performing, visual, educational and entertaining art activities to Ajo and western Pima County, to provide a venue for local artists to sell their work, and to promote art education…
Provide cultural folk dancing experience
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flagstaff Master Chorale Inc and the most unlike its peers is The International Dark-Sky Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW BEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF MASTER CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Tynkertopia Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA PRIDE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA CELTIC HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Threaded Together ↗
- Who funds BALLET FOLKLORICO DE COLORES ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS COALITION OF FLAGSTAFF INC ↗
- Who funds STEM CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARKSKY AERIAL ↗
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.
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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 Flagstaff Arts Council Inc 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.
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.