· Public charity
Spokane Arts Fund
To amplify spokane as the cultural hub and catalyst for the inland northwest through arts leadership, advocacy, networking and support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $93,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $636,739 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $542,989 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 $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HEARTWORKS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER GROUP | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| DOM AND BOMB | $8,000 |
| KINDLING PRODUCTIONS LLC | $8,000 |
| FAT GRATITUDE PRODUCTIONS LLC | $6,250 |
| SPOKANE ART SCHOOL | $5,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program
Seattle ReCreative promotes creativity, community and environmental stewardship through creative reuse and arts education. We collect traditional and non-traditional art supplies and sell them in our retail store and use them in our arts…
Stanwood Camano Arts Advocacy Commission (SCAAC) builds community by partnering, educating, celebrating, and advocating for the arts.
Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.
The Spokane River Forums mission is to create materials, events and activities that promote regional dialogues for sustaining a healthy river system while meeting the needs of a growing population.
Cultivation of the arts for the community
To promote an arts-rich enviroment in the Columbia Gorge, in which novices as well as well-established artists and performers discover and develop their full creative potential.
The mission of ArtStart, founded in 1988, has remained constant over its 36-year history: to foster artistic creativity and illuminate the connections among people, ideas, and the environment. Our artists engage children, families, and…
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spark Central and the most unlike its peers is Nuestras Raices Centro Comunitario Dba Nuestras Raices. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 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.
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- Who funds STAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Spokane Public Radio ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Spark Central ↗
- Who funds Friends of Manito ↗
- Who funds Spokane Art School ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Artsfund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Spokane Arts Fund 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.