Indiana · Nonprofit
ARTS PLACE INC
ARTS PLACE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500,190 to it, the largest being THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION ($919,345). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $534k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Arts Place Inc does
Mission
Arts place nurtures the creative spirit by making arts experiences, education, and services accessible to the region's residents, artists, and cultural organizations
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Facility operations - facility management has been a major responsibility for arts place, inc. Since 1983. Arts place operates three community arts centers. The jay county campus of arts place is located in portland indiana and also serves as the corporate home for arts place. This campus serves jay and surrounding counties in indiana and ohio. The auglaize/mercer center of arts place is located in st. Marys ohio and serves auglaize, mercer and surrounding counties. The blackford county arts center located in hartford city indiana serves blackford and surrounding counties in indiana.
$243,425 spent$18,435 earned by the program50% of program spendingMusicworks - drawing the largest number of students in creativeworks is our music instruction program. Inspired by the music settlement movement, arts place began this music education program in 1983. Individual and group instruction is available in brass, guitar, harp, percussion, piano, orchestral strings, woodwinds, and voice. Ensembles conducted include percussion, brass, orchestral strings, flute, and community band and choir. Introductory music instruction is available for preschoolers through the first steps class. The program continues to be offered at the blackford county arts center and the jay county campus of arts place.
$89,389 spent$56,354 earned by the program18% of program spendingArts in the parks - this popular program was launched in 1977 and continues to provide access to the arts for children during the summer months. Over 16,000 children have participated in the program since its inception. The workshops are designed for children ages six through twelve and provide intensive introductions to specific art-form mediums. Workshops are typically led by professional artists and arts educators, who are referred to as teaching artists. In june 2024 the program included fourteen communities in five counties in indiana and ohio.
$61,323 spent$7,078 earned by the program12% of program spendingGovernance - oversight of the corporation is provided by the arts place corporate board of directors elected by the membership. Local leadership for the auglaize/mercer center and the blackford county arts center is provided by their individual community boards appointed by the corporate board. The community board makes programming recommendations, provides guidance to the center, and serves as leadership in raising funds for activities in their respective communities.public art - a prominent feature of the jay county campus is its public art. These works include the massive tile relief mural, landscape's legacy by cleveland artist rhonda franklin. This ceramic installation was the result of a three-year project that included over 40 apprentices and volunteers. On the grounds may be found the bronze sculpture autumn by harold "tuck" langland of granger, indiana. The permanent collection includes several other sculptures, as well as dozens of paintings and woodcuts. A large mural, designed and painted by sarah hess, is located at 207 east spring street in memorial park. This mural project was funded by the ohio arts council and was a collaborative effort between arts place, the…
$96,557 spent$23,469 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $490,694.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $3.9M (+47%).
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 6% · 2018 2% · 2019 14% · 2020 10% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 10% · 2024 25% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Carolyn Carducci
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $219k → $282k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PLACE 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 PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 76% · 2019 45% · 2020 58% · 2021 72% · 2022 64% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of ARTS PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
95% of ARTS PLACE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding ARTS PLACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 PLACE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 PLACE 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 PLACE INC?
- ARTS PLACE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500,190 to it, the largest being THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION ($919,345). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,500,190 in grants to ARTS PLACE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS PLACE INC?
- THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $919,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS PLACE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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