Kansas · Nonprofit
ARTS CENTER INC
ARTS CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,713 to it, the largest being HARPER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,680). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Arts Center is to provide education and exposure to the arts to the entire community by providing a physical space and classes that teach and inspire creativity Our goals are to --make arts education and instruction accessible to all in Harper County --provide a safe empowering place for students of all ages abilities to explore their creativity through the arts and focus on the process of creating --connect people by providing arts events that cultivate a love for creativity and build community --bring further value to Harper County through cultural enrichment and a program that would be considered an asset for families currently living here and those considering moving into the area The primary services of the The Arts Center include the school visual art program visiting local elementary schools and providing visual arts programming childrens creative programming community theatre and arts enrichment classes and adult arts programming
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Childrens Community Theatre Program is the most significant program for the Arts Center In 2025 this included 3 performances of The Lion King Jr with a cast of 38 students in 4th through 12th grades The performances included one for local elementary school students with an estimate of 350 in attendance and two public performances with 900 total in attendance The programs objective is to provide a quality performing arts experience locally for both theatre-makers and audience members Beyond that the goal of the program is to provide students with experience in the performing arts growing creativity and personal expression as well as building their soft skills For audiences the goal is to provide local arts culture for entertainment and enrichment adding to their quality of life in rural Kansas
$4,344 spent42% of program spendingThe Adult Community Theatre Program is the second most significant program for the Arts Center In 2025 this included 2 performances of Steel Magnolias with a cast of 6 adults from Anthony Harper Kansas The performances included two public performances with 354 total in attendance The programs objective is to provide a quality performing arts experience locally for both theatre-makers and audience members Beyond that the goal of the program is to provide adults with experience in the performing arts growing creativity and personal expression as well as building community For audiences the goal is to provide local arts culture for entertainment and enrichment adding to their quality of life in rural Kansas
$5,929 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $100k to $86k (−14%).
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.
95% of ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kasey Waldschmidt
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $20k → $7k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 ARTS CENTER INC’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
ARTS CENTER INC 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
98% 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 ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
98% of ARTS CENTER INC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
ARTS CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS CENTER INC
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 Kansas
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 ARTS CENTER INC: 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 ARTS CENTER INC?
- ARTS CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,713 to it, the largest being HARPER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,680). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $73,713 in grants to ARTS CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS CENTER INC?
- HARPER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2021–2025), 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