California · Nonprofit
Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall
Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,027 to it, the largest being TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($209,580). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $585k
- Net assets
- $445k
What Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall does
Mission
Inspire, teach and build our rural communities through equitable access to the arts and arts education. We provide arts programs for schools and the public in both California and Nevada. Fox Cultural Hall is a 325-person capacity performance and event space located in North Lake Tahoe. The hall will allow us to greatly expand our arts programs and offerings including live performances, master classes, workshops, teen clubs, and arts classes to our rural communities and schools. Arts For The Schools DBA Fox Cultural Hall now offers seven non-profit programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Service AccomplishmentsArts For The Schools provides standards-based visual and performing arts programming to students in grades TK12 across California and Nevada.Assemblies and Performances:The organization presents in-school assemblies featuring professional musicians, dancers, and cultural artists. Programs introduce students to diverse artistic traditions while supporting curriculum integration and social-emotional development.Masterclasses and Artist Residencies:Professional artists work directly with middle and high school students through rehearsals, coaching, and collaborative performance experiences aligned with state arts standards.Before- and After-School Enrichment:Extended learning programs, including string instruction, guitar, and visual arts, provide ongoing skill development and creative engagement for students in grades 112.In-School Visual Arts Instruction:Weekly visual arts classes are delivered by professional artists and credentialed instructors. Curriculum aligns with California and Nevada Visual Arts Content Standards and integrates interdisciplinary learning across science, math, social studies, and SEL.Workshops and Community Arts…
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$262,056 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $262,056.
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 2022 to 2023, from $452k to $623k (+38%).
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 17% · 2018 10% · 2019 17% · 2020 6% · 2021 27% · 2022 43% · 2023 30% · 2024 32% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $54k → $21k.
5 of 15 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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall’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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 43% · 2019 55% · 2020 41% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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
55% of Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: 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 For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall?
- Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,027 to it, the largest being TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($209,580). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $585,027 in grants to Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall?
- TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $209,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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