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Flagstaff Arts Council Inc

The flagstaff arts council promotes, strengthens and advocates for the arts in our community.

$499k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MScience & Tech$249kEnvironment$237kEducation$65kCivil Rights$41kHealth$27kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $482,350, the rows itemized in this filing. The $499,119 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,769 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $399k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$590k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$1.5M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+2%

Still filing today

77%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationScience & TechEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FS
    FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $169k · revenue +10%
  • TT
    THEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $159k · revenue +17%
  • FF
    FLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +50% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • TT
    Threaded Together
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +2%
  • DA
    DARKSKY AERIAL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CHORALE OF FLAGSTAFF - FLAGSTAFF Y
    3× · 2019–2024 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sedona Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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3
Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Fine Arts Association of Arizonia

Raise awareness on Indian Classical performing arts by conducting workshops lecture demostrations and presenting concerts that is open to all audience

Arts & Culture
5
Alaska Folk Festival Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Triad Performing Arts of Arizona

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Cortez Center Inc Dba Cortez Cultural Center

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…

—
8
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
9
Ajo Council for the Fine Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Topaz Fairy Project
Health
11
Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli-Az

Provide cultural folk dancing experience

Health
12
Degrazia Foundation Inc
Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flagstaff Master Chorale Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $168,500 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONTHEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY: $159,450 · Arts & CultureTHEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANYMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $134,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Northern Arizona IncFLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC: $112,500 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INCFLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE: $59,250 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCEFLAGSTAFF MASTER CHORALE INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN ARIZONA CELTIC HERITAGE SOCIETY: $26,212 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $72,200 · Arts & Culture+4 moreARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $113,950 · OtherARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE ARBORETUM AT FLAGSTAFF: $100,500 · OtherTHE ARBORETUM AT FLAGSTAFFCANYON MOVEMENT COMPANY INC: $58,300 · OtherCANYON MOVEMENT COMPANY INCORCHESTRA NORTHERN ARIZONA: $32,500 · OtherFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherFLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $29,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherTYNKERTOPIA: $22,100 · OtherTHREADED TOGETHER: $21,600 · Other+21 more: $182,550 · Other+21 moreLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $154,300 · Science & TechLOWELL OB…WILLOW BEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: $112,200 · EnvironmentFlagstaff Shakespeare Festival: $61,900 · Human ServicesHOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTynkertopia Inc: $30,500 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA PRIDE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · EducationSTEM CITY INC: $17,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$769,612Other$620,100Science & Tech$154,300Environment$112,200Human Services$84,900Education$60,500Health$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $168,500 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetTHEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY: $159,450 over 7y, 18% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $154,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $134,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $113,950 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC: $112,500 over 7y, 43% of budgetWILLOW BEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: $112,200 over 7y, 14% of budgetFlagstaff Shakespeare Festival: $61,900 over 4y, 51% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE: $59,250 over 7y, 17% of budgetFLAGSTAFF MASTER CHORALE INC: $37,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetTynkertopia Inc: $30,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA PRIDE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA CELTIC HERITAGE SOCIETY: $26,212 over 4y, 25% of budgetHOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThreaded Together: $23,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBALLET FOLKLORICO DE COLORES: $21,500 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetARTISTS COALITION OF FLAGSTAFF INC: $18,200 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC: $13,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Molly and Joseph Herm…Arizona Community Fou…The Narbha Institute …Burton Family Foundat…APS Foundation IncGeofamily FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Molly and Joseph Herman FoundationAZ38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Narbha Institute Inc · Burton Family Foundation · APS Foundation Inc · Geofamily Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flagstaff Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flagstaff Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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