Washington · Nonprofit
Methow Arts Alliance
Methow Arts Alliance (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,640 to it, the largest being ICICLE FUND ($979,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $490k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $354k
What Methow Arts Alliance does
Mission
Methow Arts Alliance enriches the lives of people in Okanogan County by making the arts an integral and dynamic part of publicschool education, economic vitality, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art Education: Contributed to the academic success and cultural understanding by providing art education programs youth in 8 school districts across Okanogan County. Delivered a trauma informed arts in education program that meets state standards in SEL. Involved all public, private, and homeschooled students of the Methow Valley in childrens theater production. Maintained a k-5 arts program at Methow Valley Elementary and middle school which delivered an hour of arts education to every student, every week.
$153,709 spent55% of program spendingPresenting: Delivered multi-cultural performing and visual art opportunities for 7,500 children across 8 school districts. Executed a summer concert series that served both youth and adults which included the annual July 4th Arts Festival, approximately 2500 people reached.
$111,788 spent40% of program spendingPromotion: Produced and distributed 4 quarterly art publications highlighting the work of area artists and arts organizations, each publication reaching approximately 5,000. Promoted the work of artists and arts organizations through our website and active social media presence.
$13,974 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $279,471.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $211k to $479k (+127%).
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: 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 7% · 2023 21% · 2024 3% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sarah Jo Lightner
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $42k → $139k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Methow Arts Alliance’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
Methow Arts Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 Methow Arts Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 75% · 2019 87% · 2020 64% · 2021 76% · 2022 71% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of Methow Arts Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
97% of Methow Arts Alliance's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Methow Arts Alliance
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.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 Methow Arts Alliance: 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 Methow Arts Alliance?
- Methow Arts Alliance (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,640 to it, the largest being ICICLE FUND ($979,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Methow Arts Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,359,640 in grants to Methow Arts Alliance, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Methow Arts Alliance?
- ICICLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $979,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Methow Arts Alliance 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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