Vermont · Nonprofit
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,325,113 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,263,209). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support burlington city arts' activities and programs, and to support vermont artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The bca foundation supports the work of burlington city arts and provides grant funding for artists and organizations with an arts mission, awards prizes to vermont artists, and raises funds to support the renovations of 405 pine street in order to create more affordable art space in burlington.
$717,262 spentof which $706,262 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $717,262.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $7.0M (+68%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 7% · 2020 0% · 2022 4% · 2023 43% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Doug Griswold
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $595k → $1.2M.
11 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 17% · 2019 30% · 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — 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
59% of BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
62% of BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record — $185k federal, $1.3M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
- Other Grants$1.3M
- Grants to Municipalities$10k
- Advertising - Other$3k
- Rent Land&Bldgs-Non-Office$892
- Fee For Space Charge$509
- Travel-Inst-Incidentals-Emp$130
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 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 405 Investment Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION 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 BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,325,113 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,263,209). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $7,325,113 in grants to BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,263,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 53 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