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FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,452 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($122,113). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$140k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$153k
Net assets
$236k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Francis Hardy Center for the Arts does

Mission

The historic hardy gallery enriches the vibrancy of the door county community by promoting and fostering local art.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Art programs: quality art exhibits and public events focused on connecting the arts to the community including adult art programs, internships for college students, and youth in the community.

    $96,230 spent$56,207 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $96,230.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($230k) Expenses 100 ($210k) Net assets 100 ($261k)2018 Revenue 81 ($187k) Expenses 89 ($186k) Net assets 102 ($265k)2019 Revenue 87 ($200k) Expenses 98 ($206k) Net assets 99 ($258k)2020 Revenue 77 ($179k) Expenses 94 ($196k) Net assets 93 ($243k)2021 Revenue 96 ($222k) Expenses 81 ($171k) Net assets 121 ($315k)2022 Revenue 65 ($149k) Expenses 113 ($237k) Net assets 72 ($187k)2023 Revenue 49 ($113k) Expenses 55 ($115k) Net assets 78 ($205k)2024 Revenue 55 ($128k) Expenses 69 ($145k) Net assets 84 ($220k)2025 Revenue 61 ($140k) Expenses 69 ($145k) Net assets 90 ($236k)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (69)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

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 $317k to $189k (−40%).

$272k
$277k
$260k
$325k
$317k
$189k
$206k
$222k
$236k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 7% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
$744
’18
−$6k
’19
−$18k
’20
$51k
’21
−$88k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$17k
’24
−$5k
’25
2.3
months of
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.

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Listed999888889
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+0+0+4
No longer listed·00200003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $48k → $8k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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

FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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

93% 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 FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS.

80%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 94% · 2022 68% · 2023 74% — 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

93% of FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states.

WI
NJ
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 17%Fundraising 16%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,452 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($122,113). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $153,452 in grants to FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $122,113 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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