Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,348,311 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Peninsula School of Art Inc does
Mission
The peninsula school of art provides enriching, educational experiences to participants of all ages and abilities that broaden individual perspectives, and fosters a community dedicated to the transformative power of the visual arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through our education programs, adults, teens, children and families, novice to advanced from around the corner, and around the country, explore new ideas, acquire new skills and techniques, and build confidence in the visual arts. Workshops are offered in all two and three dimensional media including: painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, watercolor, ceramics, metal arts, sculpture, digital arts, and photography, as well as professional development for emerging artists. In 2024, we offered over 100 workshops and enrolled nearly 700 adult students in art education workshops. Through the studios for young artists program, peninsula school of art offered over 40 workshops and enrolled more than 300 children and teens ages 4 to 17.
$544,129 spent$195,461 earned by the program91% of program spendingPeninsula school of art's public programs provide accessible art experiences and free exhibitions to persons of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, from school age children, to aspiring artists, families and underserved communities. These programs are offered to local residents and visitors alike and are designed to encourage long term participation in visual arts. In 2024, we served 5,000 children, families and adults - local and visiting - through free public education programs such as school visits; family art days; guided tours; guenzel galleryprograms and exhibitions.
$38,026 spent6% of program spendingDesigned for artists of all career stages, the artists-in-residence program is an immersive studio experience awarded to six individuals per year. The program prioritizes time and space for its residents to engage fully in their creative practice creating uninterrupted opportunities to experiment and pursue new projects and ideas. Residents receive: a semi-private workspace, access to our printmaking, digital, metals, and ceramics studios, and equipment, a studio visit with a visiting critic, housing for the six-week session, and opportunities to engage with the public about their work and process in an environment that encourages contemplation, experimentation, and exchange of ideas, this program is invested in new modes of thinking and working in visual art.
$15,300 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,455.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $7.1M (+38%).
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 9% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Adam Erickson
Executive director
Board chair
Thomas Claggett
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $93k → $479k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $112k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Door County Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART 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
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 50% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 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
69% of PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $796k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC: 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 PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC?
- PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,348,311 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,348,311 in grants to PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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