New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC
COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,073 to it, the largest being THE HILLIARD FOUNDATION INC ($103,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $392k
What Community Arts of Elmira Inc does
Mission
To provide performance and exhibition space to new and established artists, to offer educational programs and activities and to create public awareness by encouraging participation in and appreciation for all of the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Art Program Elmira Infinite Canvas: We installed 22 outdoor murals in 2025, paying artists as muralists, advancing the area's creative economy, and buying as many local supplies as possible, partnering with other not for profits and municipalities. We also rented lift equipment for muralists to use to install the murals. The EIC murals celebrate the area's history, culture, communities and nature, for example, through visual art storytelling that enhances tourism. Free Arts Community Annual Event Mural Fest: a one-day free community event that engages community members and tourists to connect directly with the muralists, painting live; interactive arts activities, such as mobile mural boards; hosting creative vendors and live music. It's an event whose creative impact of mural making lasts for years. We also pay for marketing materials (flyers, card) and advertising (commercials, billboards) to support the event, the public art program, the muralists, musicians, food vendors and sponsors.
$93,947 spent68% of program spendingFree Arts Education Made In the Galleries: we offered weekly free arts education classes to children, tweens, teens, adults and older adults led by professional teaching artists whom we pay to create the best practice arts education experience for all. Classes take place after school and on the weekends, offering a variety of genres. The Free Arts Education program not only teaches artistic skills, but also provides socialization, reducing screen-time and isolation.
$44,145 spent32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,092.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $326k to $392k (+21%).
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: 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $45k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA 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
COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 49% — 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 COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA 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 COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC?
- COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,073 to it, the largest being THE HILLIARD FOUNDATION INC ($103,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $288,073 in grants to COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC?
- THE HILLIARD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $103,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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