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ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER
ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,535 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital Inclocal
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio match
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 40% · 2023 63% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $48.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER’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
ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital InclocalCA · funds 12 organizations near you
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Region 2 Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Mendocino Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harold J Miossi Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council for Monterey Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Mid-Hudson Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cygnet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vintage Bmw Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
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 ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER?
- ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,535 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,535 in grants to ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOARTS OF LAKE COUNTY DBA - MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing