Michigan · Nonprofit
ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER
ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,593 to it, the largest being THE SCHALON FOUNDATION ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Ars Arts & Culture Center does
Mission
To encourage, enlighten, and engage in the arts through a local community arts center which promotes, develops, and implements cultural and visual fine arts and arts education to our community with a focus to offer arts education to under-served youth in berrien county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sculptor talks by 6 detroit artists, covering the development of their work and installations, also covering slideshows and short video about the processes. With over 50 visitors in attendance. This was free to the public. Opening exhibition in the gallery, with 3 artists, and a well attended opening reception. Arthop participation, highlighting featured artists. Summer arts camps: a popup camp, which includes sponsored underserved youth in camp each year. Develops skills, critical thinking, problem solving, as well as creating 5 to 6 completed works of art and an artists reception-approximately 25-30 students in attendance. This was our first merged age camp 10-15 years, with 2 teachers rotating youth through each class and in appropriate age based groups. Underserved youth workshop, incorporating new approach, with artist in residence, (we went directly to the centers with supplies and teacher). A great success. We offered introspective "self-portraits- and the students talked about their paintings. New exhibition popup in lakeside space included 11 artists and a holiday market with pottery and lots of ornaments. Artists/sculptors/potters, with over 50 pieces of artwork. New…
$69,255 spent$39,498 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $69,255.
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 2020 to 2021, from $33k to $89k (+173%).
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.
61% of ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $30k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER’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
ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 93% · 2020 72% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 67% — 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
95% of ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: 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 ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER?
- ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,593 to it, the largest being THE SCHALON FOUNDATION ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $217,593 in grants to ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER?
- THE SCHALON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 7 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