California · Nonprofit
Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER
Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,579 to it, the largest being Peaceful World Foundation ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER does
Mission
The Petaluma Arts Council began in June 1998, as a grassroots effort to acknowledge and celebrate local artists and their contributions and to involve the whole community in appreciation, involvement and recognition of art as a enriching component of our daily lives. The Petaluma Arts Council is committed to making the arts accessible to all of our residents and helping Petaluma serve as an example of a community that values its artists and the role they play in the quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Public Art Program: The Petaluma Arts Council envisions a city with successful and engaging public spaces, where residents and visitors alike will encounter works of art that will surprise and delight them. We envision a city with artwork of art that celebrates the diversity and history of our community while pointing to the city's aspiration for the future. The public art committee is currently working to bring this vision to Petaluma, beginning with the passage of the Public Art Ordinance.Art Around Town Program: The Art Around Town Program connects members of the Petaluma Arts Council who are visual artists with venues in the community interested in displaying artwork. It is the intent of the Art Around Town committee to get the work of as many PAC members as possible out into the public.Art Paths: The Arts Council's Art Paths Project envisions an integrated system of art paths that incorporate public art, landscaping, and artistic design features along select multi-use trails. These paths will contribute to the introduction of art into the public realm, highlight beauty in functionality, create an imaginative tourist attraction, and encourage more human-based transportation in…
$131,102 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,102.
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 2022 to 2023, from $352k to $214k (−39%).
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.
52% of Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER’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
Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
47% 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 Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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
0% of Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 0% 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
66% of Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER 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
Organizations like Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER
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In California
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER: 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 Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER?
- Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,579 to it, the largest being Peaceful World Foundation ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $60,579 in grants to Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER?
- Peaceful World Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Petaluma Arts Council DBA PETALUMA ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 11 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