New York · Nonprofit
Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc
Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,850 to it, the largest being STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($196,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $663k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $525k
What Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc does
Mission
To strengthen the arts in Tompkins County by supporting artists and arts groups, ensuring equitable access to the arts, and cultivating a creative culture that reflects our communitys diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support of artistic individuals and organizations - allocation to qualified arts organizations and individual artists for the development of the arts in the community.
$410,695 spent71% of program spendingEvents and public relations to support the local arts - including: Greater Ithaca Art Trail - to support development and appreciation of local art through self-guided tours of working artists studios throughout the community;literary fest; workshops; and other events.
$171,565 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,260.
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 2021 to 2022, from $351k to $462k (+32%).
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 50% · 2018 61% · 2019 51% · 2020 59% · 2021 57% · 2022 51% · 2023 75% · 2024 66% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Megan Barber
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $24k → $64k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Partnership of Tompkins County 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 Partnership of Tompkins County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 Partnership of Tompkins County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 52% · 2023 55% — 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 Partnership of Tompkins County 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. $162k 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
Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc is better cushioned than half 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 Partnership of Tompkins County 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
92% 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 Partnership of Tompkins County 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 Partnership of Tompkins County Inc?
- Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,850 to it, the largest being STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($196,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $440,850 in grants to Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc?
- STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $196,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County 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.
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 6 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