Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ART OF RECYCLE
ART OF RECYCLE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $379 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($379). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $379
- Net assets
- $-394800
What Art of Recycle does
Mission
To develop, heal and grow community through experiential learning and interactive instruction for the advancement of diverse learners. We aim to promote access and equality by assisting all people to be inspired and empowered by using discarded, unwanted, and excess items as learning tools; creating generations to come to be more environmentally and socially conscious. Our philosophy is that art and music is the foundation to teaching math, science, reading, writing and sociology. Creativity belongs in the same category as preventive healthcare, diet and exercise, and people who are robbed of the ability to create art because of economic hardship live a life of the poorest quality.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Art Center - Art of Recycle's Community Arts Center is a place where the community comes together around the locus of art. The Craft Castle is a free crafting area which is utilized by the general Ephrata community. Latchkey kids and people with special needs are two significant groups serviced at the free craft area. Revenue obtained through sale of donated craft supplies. Paid cashier positions utilized to train special needs youth empowering them with confidence and job skills. Summer job skills youth training program enables both advanced and delayed youth to experience a work environment while developing workplace skills, empathy, and critical thinking. Seven to eleven volunteers each day throughout the year
$172,744 spent$192,114 earned by the program83% of program spendingWorkshops - Organization provides free and low-cost workshops teaching skills on how to creatively reuse resources readily available and which are often thrown away. Education focused on developing critical thinking skills and empathy.
$9,811 spent$3,965 earned by the program5% of program spendingFree Teachers Supplies - The "Art is a Necessity" program supplies free classroom and educational materials to teachers of children or seniors or special needs students, as well various materials to nonprofits.
$26,586 spent$9,596 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,141.
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 $410k to $1.0M (+155%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 12% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ART OF RECYCLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Joshua Myers
President, Treasurer, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $68 → $69.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ART OF RECYCLE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ART OF RECYCLE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $379 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
ART OF RECYCLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ART OF RECYCLE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 ART OF RECYCLE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ART OF RECYCLE?
- ART OF RECYCLE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $379 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($379). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ART OF RECYCLE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $379 in grants to ART OF RECYCLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART OF RECYCLE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART OF RECYCLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Art of Recycle →
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 1 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