Oregon · Nonprofit
CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC
CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,452 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($789,315). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $856k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $846k
What Corvallis Arts Center Inc does
Mission
To inspire creativity and contribute to community well-being through equitable access to and engagement with the visual arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The arts education programs provide classes, workshops, and other hands-on arts experiences for all ages and skill levels. We partner with community organizations, leaders, and educators to deliver excellent learning opportunities for children and adults. This program also supports regional artists through the professional development of both creative and business skills in the form of lectures, coursework, group events, and 1:1 support.
$145,898 spent$18,231 earned by the program39% of program spendingExhibition programming promotes local, regional and national artists' work, taking the form of exhibitions, performances, and community engagement programming. The tac curator works closely with community partners to administer and feature art in the community through an annual call for proposals (free to apply), and exhibitions such as the howland community open and the around oregon biennial.
$119,067 spent32% of program spendingThe tac artshop promotes local artists and facilitates the sale of their work. Artshop staff host seasonal events to bring together local artists and art enthusiasts.
$57,587 spent$27,239 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe community engagement program serves to connect volunteers to the many service opportunities within tac and to communicate programming to tac community and supporting members. Staff provide support across all programs and serve as the friendly face of tac on-site and at community events.
$47,945 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $370,497.
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 2022 to 2023, from $230k to $668k (+191%).
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 18% · 2018 2% · 2019 9% · 2020 16% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER 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 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
Cynthia Spencer
Exec dir thr
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $278k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $404k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Arts Center Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER 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
CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 68% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC'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
97% of CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $113k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$113k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER 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 CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC?
- CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,452 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($789,315). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,134,452 in grants to CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $789,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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