Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY
BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,300 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($208,987). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $463k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County does
Mission
To promote the visual arts, stimulate curiosity, imagination and creativity, and to promote lively and thoughtful participation.the museum focuses on the works of local artists, cultural art and local collections.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
showcase and sell works by local artists and to provide enrichment by showing art from around the world as well as art from the local community. The Museum provides enrichment to our communities through free art shows, classes and cultural exhibits. Artist Registry that helps promote and exhibit art by 165+ local artists. Childrens Creativity Center offers free art classes every 1st Sunday and an huge Lego collection and Lego wall.
$140,163 spent$197,051 earned by the program100% of program spendingTwiga Museum Store features fine hand-crafted items created by our museum registry artists, along with a select group of artists from outside the area. Includes wall art, jewelry and pottery, to wearable art, cards and books.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,163.
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 2020 to 2021, from $181k to $397k (+119%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $43k → $48k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE 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
BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 65% · 2019 44% · 2020 51% · 2021 61% · 2022 56% · 2023 52% — 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
54% of BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE 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 $215k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k 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
BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE 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 BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% 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 BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE 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 BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY?
- BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,300 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($208,987). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $463,300 in grants to BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY?
- CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $208,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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