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IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION

IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,735,725 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($16,038,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$18M
21/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Idyllwild Arts Foundation does

Mission

Idyllwild Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization formed to promote and advance changing lives through the transformative power of art.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Idyllwild arts academy is a fully accredited boarding high school, with approximately 294 students who are talented in one or more of seven arts disciplines, which offers pre-professional training in those arts disciplines and in preparatory academic studies.

    $22,448,535 spentof which $7,105,765 as grants$21,949,009 earned by the program
    83% of program spending
  2. Idyllwild arts summer is an accredited summer arts program providing 55 summer arts courses to 752 students from ages 5 to 99.

    $4,485,067 spentof which $1,191,082 as grants$2,902,861 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,933,602.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($26M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2018 Revenue 99 ($27M) Expenses 104 ($27M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2019 Revenue 102 ($28M) Expenses 108 ($29M) Net assets 97 ($26M)2020 Revenue 111 ($31M) Expenses 110 ($29M) Net assets 104 ($28M)2021 Revenue 92 ($25M) Expenses 96 ($25M) Net assets 110 ($30M)2022 Revenue 122 ($33M) Expenses 114 ($30M) Net assets 119 ($32M)2023 Revenue 107 ($29M) Expenses 121 ($32M) Net assets 111 ($30M)2024 Revenue 93 ($26M) Expenses 130 ($34M) Net assets 82 ($22M)2025 Revenue 100 ($28M) Expenses 123 ($32M) Net assets 67 ($18M)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (123)Net assets (67)Peer revenue range

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 $43M to $36M (−16%).

$42M
$40M
$40M
$40M
$41M
$44M
$43M
$36M
$32M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
−$91k
’18
−$659k
’19
$1.6M
’20
−$90k
’21
$3.3M
’22
−$2.6M
’23
−$8.9M
’24
−$4.9M
’25
0.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Jeffrey A Dvorak

Trustee, board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed745832292827252827
Joined·+3+2+4+1+0+2+10+8
No longer listed·1928721479
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $310k → $5.5M.

11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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

IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION.

86%
largest funder
90%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 30% · 2020 93% · 2021 91% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — 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.

How long its funders stay

36% of IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
PA
CT
CA
VA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

17
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION?
IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,735,725 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($16,038,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $18,735,725 in grants to IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION?
ANNE RAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,038,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing