New York · Nonprofit
GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,228 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($56,769). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $776k
What Genesee Valley Council on the Arts Inc does
Mission
The genesee valley council on the arts has been livingston countys official arts council for 50 years. The mission of the arts council is to enrich the quality of life in the livingston county area by encouraging and promoting the arts and cultural activities through support of artists, schools, and community groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Livingston arts center is a community based organization dedicated to promoting the arts, supporting artists and educating the public. The arts center is home to the new deal gallery, displaying the collection of 1930s works progress administration paintings, the apartment one gallery which gives opportunities to local established artists to exhibit their work and the experimental art gallery which provides professional gallery space to emerging artists and established artists experimenting in a new medium. The arts center also offers open studio space, classes and workshops as well as gift shop to sell and promote local artists' creations. Livingston arts center is also the home to the genesee valley arts grant program, providing funding to nonprofit organizations and artists in livingston county.
$429,544 spent62% of program spendingArt sale
$262,945 spentof which $262,945 as grants38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $692,489.
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 $281k to $710k (+152%).
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 69% · 2018 86% · 2019 89% · 2020 73% · 2021 86% · 2022 71% · 2023 24% · 2024 88% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $11k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 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
GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 98% · 2022 74% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 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 $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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
GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC is better cushioned 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 GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
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 GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC?
- GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,228 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($56,769). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $133,228 in grants to GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,769 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENESEE VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 5 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