Michigan · Nonprofit
LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,062 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,000). 2 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 FY2026
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $293k
What Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts does
Mission
The Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts is organized for educational and charitable purposes. Specifically, the L.C.V.A. is organized to provide opportunities for visual artists in Lenawee County Michigan, to foster pride and involvement in the local community, to develop an audience for the visual arts and to encourage community support for the visual arts, to provide educational opportunities related to the visual arts for local students and to sponsor public art and art exhibits
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's art center provides studio space for approximately 25 local established and emerging artists where they may pursue their work in spaces dedicated to their specific media and in a community of artists. This activity is an important aspect of the LCVA's program offerings. Much of the expense of this program relates to providing the facility and is included in the amount reported on Part IX, Line 16 and as detailed on Schedule O
$131,023 spent$29,930 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe organization offers course instruction to both adults and children in a variety of visual arts media, including ceramics, drawing, painting, glass, printmaking and sculpture.
$52,500 spent$95,132 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe organization provides a variety of open houses and special events designed to make community members aware of art opportunities in the area and to expose the population to the visual arts. These events include a summer and winter open house and a number of gallery openings and receptions.
$2,400 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,923.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $318k to $339k (+7%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 5% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Valerie Herr
Executive Director
Board chair
Paula Trentman
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $23.
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 LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS’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
LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 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
80% of LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS is better cushioned than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: 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 LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS?
- LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,062 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,000). 2 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 LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,062 in grants to LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LENAWEE COUNCIL FOR THE VISUAL ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing