New York · Nonprofit
Arts Council for Wyoming County
Arts Council for Wyoming County (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,928 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($61,928). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $276k
What Arts Council for Wyoming County does
Mission
To bring art to the people and people to the arts by:- Providng services to artists - Fostering connections between artists and community - Offering a safe space for all people to express self and art
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization traditionally creates opportunities for the local community to engage in arts programs including concerts, workshops, films, and the receipt of community art grants. This category of programs is in addition to the annual letchworth arts & crafts show & sale whiich is classifed as a fundraiser but more important, provides significant artistic exposure to approz. 70,000 people.
$444,980 spentof which $328,278 as grants$20,285 earned by the program100% of program spendingFolk arts glow traditions supports our area's living cultural heritage through documentation and public programming of traditional arts. It operates collaboratively among the arts council of wyoming county, genesee valley council on the arts, and the genesee-orleans regional arts council. This regional program has been led since 1997 by founding director, karen canning. Although the "our farms, our families" grant project was a 2019 initiative, portions of the project were not executed until 2020 including the production of a new book that features the work of 10 artists who were commissioned to create new art that document the farming culture in wyoming county. The grant project will culminate in 2021. This grant was made possible through the finger lakes regional economic development council (redc). Securing multiple grants for the rural community we serve. Grants received from the new york state council on the arts (nysca), wyoming county gov., wyoming foundation / community for greater buffalo, mary conable foundation, conable family foundation, and more.
State community regrants (scr) - this program provides regrant funds to individual artists and smaller non-profit organizations. The primary goal of the dec program is to provide continuing support for cultural arts programs at low or no cost within each community; specifically, to support local artists and those developing programming by helping to develop and present those programs. As a result of the covid -19 pandemic, most of the planned programs were presented in a virtual format. Hence, no record of in-person attendance were available for this report.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,980.
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 2019 to 2020, from $434k to $561k (+29%).
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 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 41% · 2020 74% · 2021 60% · 2022 39% · 2023 77% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Arts Council for Wyoming County’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Krysta Aina
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $29k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Council for Wyoming County’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 Council for Wyoming County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
73% 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 Council for Wyoming County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 74% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 82% — 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
73% of Arts Council for Wyoming County'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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
Arts Council for Wyoming County is better cushioned 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 Arts Council for Wyoming County
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Council for Wyoming County: 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 Council for Wyoming County?
- Arts Council for Wyoming County (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,928 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($61,928). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Arts Council for Wyoming County have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $84,928 in grants to Arts Council for Wyoming County, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts Council for Wyoming County?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts Council for Wyoming County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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