Washington · Nonprofit
CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,195 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($700,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $775k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Celtic Arts Foundation does
Mission
To sponsor, encourage and promote celtic culture through events and educational activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sponsored 2024 skagit valley highland games and celtic festival attended by 10,000 guests celebrating traditional scotish music, art and sport. This two-day event is held annually the second week of july in mount vernon, wa.
$308,488 spent$121,858 earned by the program36% of program spendingMusical instruction and seminars at the organization's annual winter school that brings together the world's finest bagpipers, scottish drummers and fiddlers with other musicians from throughout the united states and canada. This event is coupled with the master of scottish arts performance that is open to the general public featuring the instructors from the winter school programs and the finest highland dancers at edmons center for the arts in edmonds, washington.
$392,064 spentof which $18,120 as grants$283,819 earned by the program46% of program spendingThe bagpipes for beginners series is an eight-week class offered quarterly for students wanting to learn how to play the bagpipes, a traditional scottish instrument. There are seven levels of classes offered to provide support for true beginners to more advanced and experienced players. Classes are held at the littlefield celtic center. In 2024, there were 59 students who participated in the series. The classes are a direct fulfillment of caf's mission of sponsoring and promoting celtic culture through events and educational activities.
$25,614 spent$18,505 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services include various celtic musical performances, st. Patrick day activities, the bellingham celtic festival, whiskey tasting and other on-site celtic events.
$125,478 spent$115,859 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $851,644.
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 $2.6M to $3.1M (+21%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 36% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Cayley Schmid
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $246k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $625k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Celtic Arts Supporting Organization). These are real filings, and they are not money CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION’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
CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 97% · 2022 29% · 2023 98% — 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 CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
96% of CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Celtic Arts Supporting Organization · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION?
- CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,195 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($700,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $775,195 in grants to CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION?
- SAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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