Oklahoma · Nonprofit
NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC
NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $764,934 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($249,334). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $690k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $765k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Norman Firehouse Art Center Inc does
Mission
The norman firehouse art center enriches our community by offering creative visual arts education, experiences, and exhibitions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In a typical year, the firehouse offers in-house visual arts classes to 560 children through quarterly class semesters. Childrens classes are offered for ages 2-14 through our art after school program during the winter, spring, and fall semesters, and our childrens summer art program during the summer semester. The firehouse also offers our 5th grade art program, art sparks, in partnership with norman public schools. This program provides 5th grade students with in-class pre and post visits with an art educator and a field trip to the firehouse. These programs play a vital role in the norman community, as normans primary schools have no dedicated art instructors.
$58,746 spent$33,759 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe firehouse offers adult visual arts classes and workshops to approximately 780 individuals each year. Classes are offered in a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, jewelry making, glass, printmaking, photography, and ceramics. The firehouses accessibility programming reaches an additional 450 individuals and includes the healing studio for adults with disabilities, healing outreach for individuals at assisted living homes, firehouse equality club for 2slgbtqia+ individuals and their families, and art forces for u.s. Military veterans and active service members. The firehouse also provides visual arts experiences through outreach at okc metro events to encourage visual arts learning, creative thinking, and self-expression, reaching over 22,000 individuals annually.
$178,898 spent$158,052 earned by the program55% of program spendingThe firehouse provides free art experiences and programming through the firehouse gallery, which presents three in-house exhibitions and three culturally relevant exhibitions each year. The firehouse also provides opportunities for artists through art sales in our permanent gift shop, which features work by a rotating list of over 50 local artists. The gallery and gift shop are free to the public and serve over 2,000 visitors each year.
$69,536 spent$3,775 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity events/other
$18,976 spentof which $5,000 as grants$6,966 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $326,156.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $821k to $1.7M (+110%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 44% · 2021 77% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% · 2024 35% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Kendall Hurley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $73k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC’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
NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 40% · 2019 45% · 2020 34% · 2021 42% · 2022 49% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“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
83% of NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k 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
NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record — $30k federal, $200k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$107k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$94k
- Educational Services$150
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC?
- NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $764,934 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($249,334). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $764,934 in grants to NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC?
- ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $249,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 9 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