Virginia · Nonprofit
CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,092 to it, the largest being TWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($112,608). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $325k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $608k
What Chestnut Creek School of the Arts does
Mission
To offer classes of the visual and performing arts in traditional and contemporary genres in order to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Southwestern Virginia
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To offer classes in the visual and performing arts in traditional and contemporary genres in order to preserve and promote the culture of Southwest Virginia. Included are classes for fiber arts, drawing, painting, photography, jewelry and metals, glass, wood, literary music, dance and Appalachian Heritage Programs
$56,408 spent$28,553 earned by the program23% of program spendingJunior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) is a program for grade school youth to learn traditional bluegrass and old-time music instrument playing on guitar, banjo, fiddle and/or mandolin.
$11,050 spent$15,787 earned by the program4% of program spendingTo operate a pottery studio to offer classes in the production of traditional pottery techniques in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of Southwest Virginia
$7,995 spent$11,201 earned by the program3% of program spendingThis includes staff expenses, electricity, occupancy and everything else needed to carry out programing
$175,054 spent70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $250,507.
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 2020 to 2021, from $456k to $597k (+31%).
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 43% · 2018 39% · 2019 40% · 2020 44% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% · 2024 45% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Christina Elise Pollins
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $17k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’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
CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 89% · 2022 99% · 2023 94% — 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
50% of CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
82% of CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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.
Against its field
CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $138k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,092 to it, the largest being TWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($112,608). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $138,092 in grants to CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- TWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $112,608 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 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.
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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 8 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