Washington · Nonprofit
Carnegie Picture Lab
Carnegie Picture Lab (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,136 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($212,919). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $305k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $702k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Carnegie Picture Lab does
Mission
Empowering young people's creative discovery of art, by delivering dynamic art experiences for all young people through innovative and transformative programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
After 4 years, our Rural Art Initiative program, in partnership with the Prescott School District, reached its completion in June 2025. We continue to serve this rural, K-12 school district of 250 students with our Creativity Curated program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Picture Labs program services are provided by the following methods: 89% In-school Programming, 14% Community Visibility, and 7% Makerspace and Offices.During the 2024-25 school year, our organization delivered record-breaking arts education in partner schools and after-school programs across the region:School District # of art classes taught # of students Walla Walla Public Schools 777 2,155 Milton-Freewater School District 663 780Athena, Dayton, Starbuck, and Prescott 154 599After School Programs 112 60 _______ _____Total 1,706 classes 3,275 studentsTo create more art making opportunities outside the academic school day, Carnegie Picture Lab has transformed its building into a creative Art Makerspace where young people from preschool through high school and their families are able to spend time exploring, discovering, and expressing their creativity through visual art media. Besides our summer workshops, we opened our Makerspace free of charge twice a week during the 24-25 school year, and every day during school breaks. This program served well over 350 children, youth, and their families.Through events, workshops, exhibitions, and community engagement, our programming brought…
$263,206 spent$55,214 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $263,206.
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 2024 to 2025, from $284k to $168k (−41%).
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.
82% of Carnegie Picture Lab’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. 6 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 broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $72k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Carnegie Picture Lab’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
Carnegie Picture Lab has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 Carnegie Picture Lab.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 28% · 2019 41% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 45% · 2023 50% — broadly stable.
“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
67% of Carnegie Picture Lab's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
100% of Carnegie Picture Lab's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Carnegie Picture Lab has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Carnegie Picture Lab receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Carnegie Picture Lab
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab?
- Carnegie Picture Lab (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,136 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($212,919). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Carnegie Picture Lab have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $702,136 in grants to Carnegie Picture Lab, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carnegie Picture Lab?
- BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $212,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carnegie Picture Lab find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing