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CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS

CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,828 to it, the largest being THE GEISLER-PENQUITE FOUNDATION ($465,139). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$816k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$553k
Net assets
$1.6M
6/7 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Centre for Arts and Artists does

Mission

Classes for educational and cultural learning

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Classes for educational and cultural learning

    $91,869 spent$10,187 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,869.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($314k)2018 Revenue -139 ($-20811) Expenses 155 ($96k) Net assets 106 ($332k)2019 Revenue 680 ($102k) Expenses 92 ($57k) Net assets 126 ($397k)2020 Revenue 583 ($87k) Expenses 136 ($84k) Net assets 213 ($670k)2021 Revenue 678 ($101k) Expenses 90 ($56k) Net assets 243 ($763k)2022 Revenue 873 ($131k) Expenses 130 ($80k) Net assets 246 ($774k)2023 Revenue 1046 ($156k) Expenses 149 ($92k) Net assets 271 ($852k)2024 Revenue 5457 ($816k) Expenses 180 ($111k) Net assets 509 ($1.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (5457)Expenses (180)Net assets (509)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 2023 to 2024, from $854k to $1.6M (+87%).

$387k
$396k
$452k
$683k
$764k
$774k
$854k
$1.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 56% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$47k
’17
−$117k
’18
$45k
’19
$4k
’20
$46k
’21
$51k
’22
$65k
’23
$706k
’24
94
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.

Board chair

Jack Topp

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed55555
Joined·+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·0211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $20k → $14k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS’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

CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 75% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 64% · 2023 70% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA
CO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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

CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin86% · top quartile
Months of reserve93.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)77% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS

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In Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS?
CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,828 to it, the largest being THE GEISLER-PENQUITE FOUNDATION ($465,139). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $552,828 in grants to CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS?
THE GEISLER-PENQUITE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $465,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing