Virginia · Nonprofit
Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation
Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,990 to it, the largest being DEAN FOUNDATION INC IMA ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $463k
What Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation does
Mission
The Perkinson Center for the Arts and Education is a performing and visual arts center that provides and promotes cultural arts opportunities within our community. (Continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Managed by the Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation (ccaf), the baxter perkinson center for the arts & education is the regions first public performing and visual arts center to be built from the ground up in the last century. The venue is more than 20,500 square feet and houses: - the 354-seat jimmy dean theater & 35' x 27' stage - the baxter & elaine perkinson art gallery - a 1,500 square foot multipurpose education center with attached patio - a 750 square foot classroom - for touring artists: green room, chorus dressing rooms, and star dressing room the perkinson center will feature a variety of artist performers from around the region and around the world. The venue is also a world-class location for all your special events needs, whether a wedding, private party, or corporate work function, guests can immerse themselves in the arts in every space throughout the center.
$690,279 spent$231,356 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $690,279.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $2.4M (+17%).
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: 2019 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 16% · 2023 14% · 2024 21% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Chelsea Buyalos
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Clarke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $2k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Chesterfield Cultural Arts 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
Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 83% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chesterfield Cultural Arts 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chesterfield Cultural Arts 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 Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation?
- Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,990 to it, the largest being DEAN FOUNDATION INC IMA ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $200,990 in grants to Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation?
- DEAN FOUNDATION INC IMA is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 12 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