Washington · Nonprofit
HONK FESTIVAL WEST
HONK FESTIVAL WEST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,525 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($72,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Honk Festival West does
Mission
HONK! Fest West is dedicated to the activation of public space through energetic musical performance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through HONK Festival West, we provide free music and cultural programming. We host performances with musical groups from across the country. Performances are primarily all ages and take place in public spaces. Additionally, we increase access to cultural programming by holding performances in communities currently underserved by the arts. We hold events on 15 days out of the year, serving 3,000 individual community members.
$68,501 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $67k to $58k (−13%).
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 HONK FESTIVAL WEST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of HONK FESTIVAL WEST’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
HONK FESTIVAL WEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
100% 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 HONK FESTIVAL WEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
88% of HONK FESTIVAL WEST's grant income comes from Washington 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
HONK FESTIVAL WEST's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HONK FESTIVAL WEST
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HONK FESTIVAL WEST: 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 HONK FESTIVAL WEST?
- HONK FESTIVAL WEST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,525 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($72,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HONK FESTIVAL WEST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $82,525 in grants to HONK FESTIVAL WEST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HONK FESTIVAL WEST?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $72,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HONK FESTIVAL WEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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