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CENTRUM FOUNDATION

CENTRUM FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,399,410 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($5,356,153). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.5M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
$3.6M
24/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Centrum Foundation does

Mission

To encourage those who seek creative and artistic growth while presenting visual, literary and performing arts to the public.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Workshops, performances and education programs: more than 10,000 people partake in centrum programs each year. The majority of activity happens in the summer when centrum offers workshops in jazz, blues, fiddle tunes and writing for students of all ages. Performances at the mccurdy pavilion and wheeler theater, for the benefit of the general public, are the culmination of the workshops. In addition, centrum offers programs specifically for washington youth, including a high school summer arts camp, water world (for 5th and 6th graders), and explorations (for middle schoolers). Nearly 460 artists utilize centrum cottages each year to create new works.

    $3,311,764 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Public awareness and marketing activities: centrum activities are marketed through brochures, print, radio and television advertising as well as extensively through our website, facebook, twitter and other social networking sites. The website features new content daily through blogs and other material provided by staff, students and volunteers.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,311,764.

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 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($769k)2018 Revenue 114 ($3.9M) Expenses 106 ($3.4M) Net assets 159 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 136 ($4.6M) Expenses 116 ($3.7M) Net assets 282 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 58 ($2.0M) Expenses 61 ($1.9M) Net assets 300 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 84 ($2.8M) Expenses 74 ($2.4M) Net assets 363 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 135 ($4.6M) Expenses 119 ($3.8M) Net assets 436 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 139 ($4.7M) Expenses 142 ($4.5M) Net assets 473 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 132 ($4.5M) Expenses 143 ($4.6M) Net assets 474 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (143)Net assets (474)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 2022 to 2023, from $3.6M to $5.1M (+42%).

$1.2M
$1.6M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$3.4M
$3.6M
$5.1M
$5.1M
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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: 2017 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of CENTRUM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$191k
’17
$454k
’18
$899k
’19
$20k
’20
$470k
’21
$771k
’22
$154k
’23
−$84k
’24
1.5
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed1818191621202020
Joined·+4+2+1+6+2+0+2
No longer listed·4141302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $177k → $1.1M.

14 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CENTRUM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

CENTRUM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

64%
largest funder
80%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 87% · 2019 78% · 2020 65% · 2021 59% · 2022 79% · 2023 64% — 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

43% of CENTRUM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of CENTRUM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
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MN
WI
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE

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

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

CENTRUM FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding CENTRUM FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.

Federal$85k
grants $85kcontracts $0
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18
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$85k

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 CENTRUM 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 12%Fundraising 16%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRUM 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 CENTRUM FOUNDATION?
CENTRUM FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,399,410 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($5,356,153). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRUM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $8,399,410 in grants to CENTRUM FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRUM FOUNDATION?
SAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,356,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRUM 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 41 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