Arizona · Nonprofit
CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION
CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,369 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($315,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $359k
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Chandler Cultural Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to connect communities and inspire people to engage with inclusive and enriching arts experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Chandler Cultural Foundation (foundation) celebrated its 33rd season of presenting arts events for the community. Annual events featured a diverse offering of free and paid performances and exhibitions featuring local, regional, national, and international artists. The foundation co-commissioned north the musical in partnerhsip with three other art centers across the country. For the first time, the foundation led efforts on behalf of the city of chandler to collect data from chandler attendees and organizations for the arts and economic prosperity study in partnership with americans for the arts. The connecting kids program served over 7,000 participants which included 70% title 1 attendance at field trips. Visual arts youth offerings served over 2,100 students with visual arts classes and activities. The youth arts council remained active and the camp kids' musical theatre fee based programs reached 81% attendance. The cca partnered to support numerous arts organizations including the chandler symphony orchestra, ballet etudes, ballet folklorico quetzalli az, tempe dance academy, miss indian arizona scholarship program and latin fiesta entertainment. With a renewed focus on…
$2,254,611 spent$2,693,582 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,254,611.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $6.7M (+48%).
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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 42% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $106k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CHANDLER CULTURAL 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
CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — 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
100% of CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHANDLER CULTURAL 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City of Chandler Arizona · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHANDLER CULTURAL 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 CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
- CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,369 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($315,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $359,369 in grants to CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANDLER CULTURAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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