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Spokane Arts Fund at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Spokane Arts Fund

To amplify spokane as the cultural hub and catalyst for the inland northwest through arts leadership, advocacy, networking and support.

$637k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$135kEducation$46kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Benefit$17kReligion$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $93,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $636,739 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $542,989 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
STAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION$10,000
HEARTWORKS$10,000
FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER GROUP$10,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE$10,000
DOM AND BOMB$8,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
KINDLING PRODUCTIONS LLC$8,000
FAT GRATITUDE PRODUCTIONS LLC$6,250
SPOKANE ART SCHOOL$5,500
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Art Salvage: $10k → 12%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 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
Spokane Interactive Arts

we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program

Arts & Culture
2
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
3
Seattle Recreative

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Stanwood-Camano Arts Advocacy Commission

Stanwood Camano Arts Advocacy Commission (SCAAC) builds community by partnering, educating, celebrating, and advocating for the arts.

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5
Kirkland Arts Center

Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.

Arts & Culture
6
Spokane River Forum

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.

Environment
7
Pacific Grove Art Center Associates Inc

Cultivation of the arts for the community

Arts & Culture
8
Columbia Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Tacoma Photo Center
Arts & Culture
10
Art Start

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…

—
11
Central Oregon Center for the Arts

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

Arts & Culture
12
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spark Central; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherEASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYSPOKANE ENSEMBLE THEATER: $18,000 · OtherSPOKANE ENSEMBLE THEATERImpanda: $15,500 · OtherImpandaHEARTWORKS: $10,000 · OtherFRANKLIN ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER GROUP: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE: $10,000 · OtherAmen Photography: $10,000 · OtherImagiMary LLC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherNORTH MONROE BUSINESS DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherMy Turn Theater: $8,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE: $8,000 · OtherDom and Bomb LLC: $8,000 · OtherKINDLING PRODUCTIONS LLC: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherNorthwest Museum of Arts & Culture: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $19,250 · Other+3 moreSTAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGE LEFT T…Spokane Public Radio: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSpokane Publ…Spark Central: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSpark Centra…Spokane Art School: $5,500 · Arts & CultureSpokane Art …WOW CHINA INC: $10,000 · EducationNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices: $10,000 · EducationFAMILY GUIDE: $17,000 · Public BenefitArt Salvage: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$213,250Arts & Culture$32,500Education$20,000Public Benefit$17,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY GUIDE: $17,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetArt Salvage: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetWOW CHINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSpokane Public Radio: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpark Central: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE: $8,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFriends of Manito: $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSpokane Art School: $5,500 over 1y, 4.2% 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 FAMILY GUIDE ↗
  • Who funds Art Salvage ↗
  • Who funds WOW CHINA INC ↗
  • Who funds Nuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices ↗
  • Who funds STAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds Spark Central ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AIA SPOKANE ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Manito ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Art School ↗

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.

The Avista FoundationInnovia FoundationArtsfundAmazonsmile Foundation
The Avista FoundationWA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Artsfund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Spokane Arts Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spokane Arts Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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