Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS
GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,040 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ($20,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Guild of American Papercutters does
Mission
To promote papercutting as art
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Gap hosts community exhibits and a museum in order to share the art of papercutting with the public these events are coordinated by volunteers
$4,227 spent9% of program spendingThe newsletter & website provides members with updates on board mtgs, exhibits, collections and events
$8,942 spent18% of program spendingGap members had the opportunity to attend exhibitions to promote the art of papercutting
$35,914 spent73% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,083.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $84k to $104k (+24%).
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.
69% of GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $31 → $33.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS’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
GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS'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 $400 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS 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 GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS: 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 GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS?
- GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,040 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ($20,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,040 in grants to GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUILD OF AMERICAN PAPERCUTTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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