West Virginia · Nonprofit
GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC
GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being SHOTT-BAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $498k
What Gary Bowlings House of Art Inc does
Mission
Education and public access to the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ripple community park and creative arts lounge. With the awarded funds, the house of art, along with downtown merchants organization created two community spaces, one indoors and one outdoors for the co9mmunity to gather, relax, create, and perform. These resources did not previously exist.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants47% of program spendingThe house of art presents 6 artist exhibits during our season, from may to october. We provide opening receptions for each exhibit at no cost to the artist. The public is invited at no charge, to a "meet the artist" event, which introduces the artist and familiarizes the public with their work
$664 spent3% of program spendingGbha presents an annual haunt for the community every weekend in october. We start work in august, and volunteers help us produce this extravaganza. We work closely with recovery point residents, who are the lifeblood of the event. But we provide food and refreshments for the entire monthly event
$822 spent4% of program spendingThe west virginia creative network granted the house of art and downtown merchants $10,000 to create two community spaces. We were the fiscal sponsor, and $3375 was disbursed to the creative arts lounge project, with the remainder going to ripple park, which was the larger, more innvolved project. Each project created public space that had not previously been available to the community.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,486.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $492k to $498k (+1%).
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.
100% of GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $300.
From the IRS filings of GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC?
- GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being SHOTT-BAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC?
- SHOTT-BAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARY BOWLINGS HOUSE OF ART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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