Kansas · Nonprofit
BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST
BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,403 to it, the largest being SLEEPER TRUST ($1,296,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Walter H Wulf and May L Wulf Charitable Foundationlocal
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio match
- Kentucky Humanities Council Incportfolio match
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.
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 21% · 2018 21% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 36% · 2024 22% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $221k → $175k.
From the IRS filings of BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST’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
BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 67% · 2019 57% · 2020 89% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Walter H Wulf and May L Wulf Charitable FoundationlocalKS · funds 5 organizations near you
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kentucky Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan Kathleen Black Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Iportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Flint Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nebraska Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Friends of the Bowlus Inc · exempt
- Usd 257 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST?
- BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,403 to it, the largest being SLEEPER TRUST ($1,296,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,565,403 in grants to BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST?
- SLEEPER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,296,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWLUS FINE ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing