Washington · Nonprofit
ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY
ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,186 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($258,515). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $-35156
What Allied Arts of Whatcom County does
Mission
To sustain and enrich our community through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other art programs
$179,444 spent$45,438 earned by the program50% of program spendingGallery exhibits and store expose the general public to emerging arts via juried shows and varied inventory.
$68,691 spent$11,945 earned by the program19% of program spendingArtists in schools/education project-assists schools in implementation of state academic arts standards, trained and mentored approximately 155 teachers in the arts, benefiting over 5,500 students and organized annual children's gallery walk.
$58,308 spent$55,136 earned by the program16% of program spendingHoliday festival of the arts-crafts fair that draws approximately 20,000 visitors from surrounding communities to shop among more than 105 crafts people and be entertained by musicians and performers.
$50,787 spent$354,769 earned by the program14% of program spendingSupported organizations
$498 spent$47,160 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $357,728.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $141k to $77k (−45%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kelly Hart
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $36k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY?
- ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,186 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($258,515). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $417,186 in grants to ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY?
- WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing