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CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS

CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,000 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$43k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$490k
Net assets
$426k
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Center for Civic Arts does

Mission

To preserve cultural assets that restore community identity and economic development

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. collected 4 new oral stories and created one additional story quilt led and created by 12 community volunteers and professional artists

    $4,000 spentof which $4,000 as grants
    18% of program spending
  2. Capital roof replacement

    $16,666 spentof which $16 as grants
    74% of program spending
  3. WPA Mural exhibit updates

    $2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,666.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2020 Revenue 55 ($42k) Expenses 286 ($82k) Net assets 41 ($28k)2021 Revenue 473 ($364k) Expenses 237 ($68k) Net assets 479 ($323k)2022 Revenue 204 ($157k) Expenses 260 ($75k) Net assets 602 ($406k)2023 Revenue 119 ($91k) Expenses 234 ($67k) Net assets 638 ($431k)2024 Revenue 91 ($70k) Expenses 259 ($74k) Net assets 632 ($426k)2025 Revenue 56 ($43k) Expenses 154 ($44k) Net assets 631 ($426k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (56)Expenses (154)Net assets (631)Peer revenue range

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 $32k to $342k (+984%).

$71k
$32k
$342k
$421k
$441k
$437k
$426k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 28% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’19
−$40k
’20
$296k
’21
$82k
’22
$24k
’23
−$4k
’24
−$774
’25
9.0
months of
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.

202120222025
Listed992
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $10k.

2 of 7 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS’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

CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

46% 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS.

51%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 43% · 2021 98% · 2022 93% · 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS's revenue fell 44% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k

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 CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS: 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS?
CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,000 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $490,000 in grants to CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS?
HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR CIVIC ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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