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CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,933 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($115,993). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$253k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$239k
Net assets
$19k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Chester Cultural Arts and Technology Center does

Mission

The CAAT Centers mission is to empower and equip disadvantaged residents by providing cultural and technological resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. CAAT Institue & Performing Arts Camp

    $3,910 spent
    66% of program spending
  2. BABES bi-monthly womens brunches

    $2,000 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Childrens Cultural Theater

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Art STEAM and Theater Saturdays

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  5. African Dance

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  6. MLK Day of Service

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  7. Girl Scout Troops

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  8. Juneteenth Celebration

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  9. Kwanzaa Celebration Week

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  10. Annual Dinner

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  11. Women Honoree Celebration

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  12. Content Creator Multi-Media Studio

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  13. Afterschool Program School Partnership

    $0 spent$95,420 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  14. Parent Family Program School Partnership

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  15. Silver Gold Platinum Memberships

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  16. Event Room Rentals

    $0 spent$11,190 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  17. Other Nonprofit Income Sales

    $0 spent$3,657 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  18. Partnership-Service Delivery

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 18 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,910.

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 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2020 Revenue 133 ($125k) Expenses 87 ($85k) Net assets 206 ($61k)2022 Revenue 250 ($234k) Expenses 238 ($231k) Net assets 19 ($6k)2023 Revenue 231 ($216k) Expenses 166 ($162k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 348 ($327k) Expenses 330 ($321k) Net assets 83 ($25k)2025 Revenue 269 ($253k) Expenses 261 ($254k) Net assets 65 ($19k)
201920202022202320242025
Revenue (269)Expenses (261)Net assets (65)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 2019 to 2020, from $33k to $61k (+83%).

$33k
$61k
$6k
$0
$25k
$19k
201920202022202320242025
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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 3% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

40% of CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’19
$40k
’20
$3k
’22
$55k
’23
$5k
’24
−$1k
’25
0.9
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.

Chief executive

Tara Jones

Executive Director President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed4444
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $71k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER’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

CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER.

49%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 36% · 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

87% of CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

VT
PA

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

’19
’20
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER?
CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,933 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($115,993). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $238,933 in grants to CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER?
Pennsylvania Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $115,993 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER 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 5 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