North Carolina · Nonprofit
Claymakers Arts Community Inc
Claymakers Arts Community Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,637 to it, the largest being THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ($26,667). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $533k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $626k
What Claymakers Arts Community Inc does
Mission
Claymakers mission is to nurture a thriving ceramics community by connecting people through education, resources, and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational Programs: Claymakers provides in-person ceramics education to more than 1,000 adult learners annually through over 100 weekly classes and workshops. Programs are open to the general public and serve participants at all skill levels, from beginners to advanced artists. Instruction includes wheel-throwing, handbuilding, sculpture, surface decoration, glazing, and kiln firing. To increase access to arts education, Claymakers awarded 21 need-based scholarships in 2025, reducing financial barriers to participation. These programs support skill development, creative expression, and community engagement. Materials Access: Claymakers operates a nonprofit ceramic supply store that provides essential materialsincluding clay, tools, and glazes to more than 1,000 individual artists, students, schools, and community organizations each year. By maintaining affordable and reliable access to materials, the store supports ongoing artistic practice and strengthens the regional ceramics ecosystem.
$347,994 spent$478,824 earned by the program100% of program spending4a. Continued Artist Services: Claymakers supports independent ceramic artists by providing affordable studio space, firing services, and access to specialized equipment not otherwise widely available. In 2025, 25 artists maintained private studio spaces, and more than 70 members of the general public utilized firing services. These resources enable artists to produce work, develop their practice, and participate in the broader arts community.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,994.
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 2023 to 2024, from $418k to $534k (+28%).
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: 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of Claymakers Arts Community Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% 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
Emily Lassiter
Executive Director
Board chair
Jessica Sandford
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $6k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Claymakers Arts Community Inc’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
Claymakers Arts Community Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Claymakers Arts Community Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
86% of Claymakers Arts Community Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
Claymakers Arts Community Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Claymakers Arts Community Inc
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Claymakers Arts Community Inc: 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 Claymakers Arts Community Inc?
- Claymakers Arts Community Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,637 to it, the largest being THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ($26,667). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Claymakers Arts Community Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,637 in grants to Claymakers Arts Community Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Claymakers Arts Community Inc?
- THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Claymakers Arts Community Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing