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Olympia Lamplighters

Olympia Lamplighters (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($62,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$156k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Olympia Lamplighters does

Mission

to provide creators and artists of all ages and disciplines a space to engage, inspire, and grow together as artists and creators in an all-inclusive community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide creators and artists of all ages and disciplines a space to engage, inspire, and grow together as artists and creators in an all-inclusive community.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($165k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2023 Revenue 74 ($135k) Expenses 96 ($159k) Net assets -359 ($-18753)2024 Revenue 79 ($144k) Expenses 85 ($140k) Net assets -291 ($-15230)2025 Revenue 86 ($156k) Expenses 86 ($141k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2022202320242025
Revenue (86)Expenses (86)Net assets (0)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 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $22k (−30%).

$32k
$22k
$26k
$22k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Olympia Lamplighters’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’22
−$24k
’23
$4k
’24
$15k
’25
1.0
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

Avalon Kragness

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20222025
Listed75
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $25k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Artsfundunclassified
$63k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Olympia Lamplighters’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

Olympia Lamplighters leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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 Olympia Lamplighters.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

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

100% of Olympia Lamplighters's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA

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

’22
’23
Washington out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Olympia Lamplighters runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Olympia Lamplighters?
Olympia Lamplighters (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($62,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Olympia Lamplighters have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,500 in grants to Olympia Lamplighters, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Olympia Lamplighters?
ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Olympia Lamplighters 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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