Washington · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY
AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,815 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($218,180). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $27k
What American Romanian Cultural Society does
Mission
Promote better understanding of Romania's rich culture and traditions through community education, visual, performance, and literary art events
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grant from Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and provide free Romanian language instruction for high school students in Washington State. Facilitate a language exam and provide a credential (Seal of Bilteracy). 18 Romanian American students enrolled. Funds were used to pay instructors, subsidize some associated student testings, and administrative costs associated with administering the grant.
$0 spentGrant from government of Romania (Department of Romanians Abroad) to be used for Romanian students and more. Funds were used to purchase computers, tablets, and other school supplies, furnishings for new office, and support for upcoming gatherings and events that promote Romanian culture
$0 spentGrant from "4 Culture" to help support the 9th edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle.Funds used for advertising, film rights, distribution, and presentation.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $70k to $38k (−46%).
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.
64% of AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $31k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY’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
AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY: 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 AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,815 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($218,180). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $225,815 in grants to AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $218,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing