Washington · Nonprofit
Arts Corps
Arts Corps (Washington) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300,841 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Arts Corps does
Mission
Arts Corps mission is to revolutionize arts education by igniting the creative power of young people through culturally engaging learning experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In addition to our regular programming, our new programming is as follows. 1). Arts Corps provides weekly classes in graphic design, visual arts, dance, and spoken word at King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention Juvenile Division at Clark Child & Family Justice Center (CCFJC) to youth in secure detention. The classes happen weekly for ages 11-17 for all levels of experience and ability, meeting the students where theyre at artistically, emotionally and developmentally. Through the students participation in Arts Corps classes the students develop critical thinking skills, increased focus, problem solving skills, and a deepened awareness of who they are and their capacity to learn. 2). Teen Art Jam is Arts Corps visual art, in-house open studio program. Teenagers 14 to 19 years old are welcomed into the Arts Corps office every second Friday of the month, 5:00-8:00pm. Students are welcomed to bring their own projects and ideas or can participate in an activity led by Teaching Artists. The activity will change from month to month. Art supplies and dinner are provided. 3). The Arts Corps All-City Youth Choir is a free, once-a-week, vocal training program from September July, open to young people ages 14 25 across King County, WA. Participants of all singing and vocal abilities meet weekly to build their vocal range by practicing and learning healthy, individualized varied vocal techniques, while also developing musicality through basic music theory, song selection,…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
This is a lump sum amount for all other program services, including multiple small additional programs.
$340,803 spent$6,510 earned by the program43% of program spendingOut of School Time Programming (OST): Arts Corps provides a network of arts learning opportunities throughout the region through long-standing partnerships with elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as community centers and residential sites to deliver out-of-school arts programming. Our out-of-school arts program places teaching artists at partner sites for after-school classes in a specific art form, such as Capoeira, theatre, visual arts, or poetry.
$158,410 spent$40,997 earned by the program20% of program spendingInteragency Programs: Arts Corps Interagency Residencies bring arts classes to students at five Interagency Academy sites. This network of small alternative high schools, which are part of the Seattle Public School (SPS) District, are designed to provide extra support for students who have not found success at traditional schools due to a wide range of factors.
$136,055 spent$45,436 earned by the program17% of program spendingNew Futures: Arts Corps partners with Southwest Youth & Family Services for their expanded learning program, New Futures. The program focuses on: 1. Academic support for students in grades 1- 12 to help build skills needed for school success, and typically includes literacy and math tutoring, homework help, English Language Learner (ELL) services; 2. Enrichment activities such as arts, STEM, outdoor recreation, and field trips that increase access to opportunities while promoting social-emotional learning; 3. Youth development activities in which youth take on leadership roles in program planning, community service, and tutoring; 4. Family advocacy in which a dedicated Advocate works with families to meet their needs in areas such as translation, transportation, breaking down institutional barriers, and engaging in their childrens education. As part of the programs enrichment, Arts Corps offers 2 onsite arts classes per site every quarter during the school year, and 2-week intensive classes during the summer. The classes span a broad range of creative disciplines including dance, visual arts, theatre, music, and digital media arts, and they develop artistry, leadership, and other…
$120,079 spent$51,946 earned by the program15% of program spendingCreative Schools: The Creative Schools Programs places teaching artists in schools for in-depth arts integration residencies on a specific unit of study in order to foster deep relationships and student learning. These intensive arts integration residencies are aimed at addressing disparities in access to arts education in schools. Teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to build artistic skills and creativity while making connections to and strengthening academic learning and contributing to a classroom environment that fosters young peoples sense of belonging and learning mindsets. The teaching artist and the classroom teacher work in partnership during school hours to develop and deliver a creative project that can integrate into a subject areas unit of study.
$22,268 spent$9,318 earned by the program3% of program spendingArt 4 Life: The Art 4 Life program addresses the need for all youth to have access to arts education career pathways by immersing teens ages 13-19 in a paid 1- to 2-weeks-long arts intensive. The foundation of the program is liberatory pedagogy which is inclusive of a culturally relevant curriculum, engaging youth voice, and valuing multiple perspectives.
$7,580 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $785,195.
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 $274k to $2.1M (+683%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 36% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Arts Corps’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $445k → $756k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Corps’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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 Corps has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 Corps.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 24% · 2019 22% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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 Arts Corps's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of Arts Corps's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Corps holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Arts Corps receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $648k on record.
- Department of Education$397k
- National Endowment for the Arts$251k
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 Arts Corps
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arts Corps: 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 Corps?
- Arts Corps (Washington) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300,841 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arts Corps have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $7,300,841 in grants to Arts Corps, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts Corps?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts Corps 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 60 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