Alaska · Nonprofit
FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION
FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,544 to it, the largest being Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation ($100,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $334k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Fairbanks Arts Association does
Mission
Promotion and preservation of the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational arts supports many educational programs such as artists-in-schools. This program provides students with hands on art learning experiences that help provide another educational layer to the material they are already learning in their daily classroom. Donated facilities rental from the fairbanks north star borough attributed $1,987 to this program service accomplishment.
$102,274 spent$35,211 earned by the program29% of program spendingVisual arts committee schedules art exhibits in the bear gallery for solo and group exhibits. Artists from outside the community are brought in to give interior artists the opportunity to connect with a broader community of arts. Also, up with art is supported because it allows elementary, middle, and high school students to put their art work into an art exhibit for the community to appreciate. Donated facilities rental from the fairbanks north star borough attributed $15,893 to this program service accomplishment.
$114,201 spent$66,765 earned by the program33% of program spendingPerforming arts programs support summer-long free performances in pioneer park for community members and visitors of all ages to enjoy. This platform also gives a diversity of performing artists an opportunity to receive professional development and showcase their antistry to a live audience. Donated facilities rental from the fairbanks north star borough attributed $248 to this program service accomplishment.
$20,987 spent6% of program spendingLiterary arts and regranting supports programs such as writing in the dark, the alaska writers guild, the statewide poetry contest and the community writers group to help nurture writers so that they can achieve their goals. Regranting consists of regranting funds received from the city of fairbanks for local artist groups.
$113,026 spent32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,488.
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.
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 $200k to $263k (+31%).
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 44% · 2018 42% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 57% · 2022 36% · 2023 47% · 2024 43% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Jessica Pena
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $62k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION’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
FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 62% · 2021 90% · 2022 74% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
57% of FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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.
Organizations like FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION
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 Alaska
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
96%
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 FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION: 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 FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,544 to it, the largest being Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation ($100,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $333,544 in grants to FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 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