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Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr
Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,101 to it, the largest being Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ($182,995). 5 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
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr does
Mission
The mission of the Grinnell Area Arts Council is to enrich the community by supporting creative expression.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stew Makerspace The Stew Makerspace, or "The Stew", is a program and facilitycreated to cultivate our local creative community. Located in a storefront spaceacross from the Arts Center in downtown Grinnell, the Stew hosts making spacesfor creative projects, educational classes and workshops in a variety of mediums.
$76,475 spent$67,721 earned by the program33% of program spendingCommunity Theatre - Grinnell Community Theatre stages live theatrical plays and musicals. Community members get involved as cast and crew, and shows are marketed and performed for the public. Productions involve casts from as small as 5 people to as large as 100 people, and the shows performed range from classical or avant-garde works to popular musicals. Community Theatre invites people with all levels of acting or theatre experience to participate.
$61,238 spent$16,300 earned by the program26% of program spendingGallery & Events - The Grinnell Arts Gallery hosts a variety of art exhibitions of regional and local artists throughout the year. Artists vary from rising up-start artists to life-long artists. The venue is open to the public and showcased each month with a reception and artist talk.
$50,811 spent$19,566 earned by the program22% of program spendingEducation - The Grinnell Arts Academy provides quality after school, evening and weekend arts-related classes throughout the school year and during the summer. The arts academy programming creates a student-centered environment in which individual activities and group projects foster creative exploration through the arts, with emphasis placed on the creative process and experimentation. Directed by professional educators with the help of volunteers and college students.
$38,827 spent$39,343 earned by the program17% of program spendingTurlach Ur Turlach Ur is a Scottish drum and pipe band with a roster of about 25 pipers and drummers. More than half of the band members are junior players ranging in age from 10 to 17. Together, the junior players comprise Turlach Ur's youth band, the Turlach Urchins. Turlach Ur is both a competition and concert band, performing concerts regularly both in Grinnell and beyond. The band is recognized widely for its unusually fun and innovative shows. Turlach Ur holds weekly practices and monthly group lessons at which all levels come together for instruction in small groups.
$6,863 spent$6,600 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,214.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+22%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $46k.
3 of 8 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.1M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Donald C Rockola Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr raised.
From the IRS filings of Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr’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
Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 56% — 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
100% of Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
80% of Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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 Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr?
- Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,101 to it, the largest being Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ($182,995). 5 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 Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $235,101 in grants to Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr?
- Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $182,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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