New Jersey · Nonprofit
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,277 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($395,376). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $565k
What Peters Valley School of Craft Inc does
Mission
Peters Valley School of Craft is a non-profit educational center specializing in fine craft and art. Peters Valley enriches lives through the teaching of, appreciation of, and practice of fine craft making through programs of craft education and is dedicated to the sustainability of the crafts community. Peters Valley works in partnership with the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area through the National Park Service. This partnership is governed by a General Agreement between the National Park Service and Peters Valley. Peters Valley School of craft Inc. serves four general groups of constituents.1. Students who come to Peters Valley to be introduced to and enriched by learning skills relating to the creation of art and fine craft, the exploration of design and supporting material sciences, and for the hands-on creative process.2.Peters Valley from time to time provides hands on art and craft experiences to the General Public combined with their visit and exposure to the beauty
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Produces vocational hands on immersive educational programming in fully equipped studios in blacksmithing, ceramics, fiber/textile arts, fine metals/jewerly, glass, photography, printmaking, mixed media/special topics, woodworking for adults and youth art programs. Produces virtual educational programming including instruction and free artist lectures and panel discussions. Additionally, the school has public outreach programs which include demonstrating the artists in schools, public events and assisted living facilities. The school engages emerging and established artists as instructors and presenters provides artist residencies, fellowships and studio assistantships to provide professional development and advancement opportunities for artists.peters valley hosts and produces curated gallery exhibitions relating to fine craft and contemporary topics and operates a retail and oline gallery presenting over 300 american artists/makers work for sale to support working artists and programs at peters valley.special events includes; participates in regioanl craft outreach events and fairs, benefit events,virtual markets and presentations, a travel program featuring national and global…
$1,309,152 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,309,152.
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 $645k to $1.1M (+67%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $14k → $398k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT 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
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
46% 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 PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 56% · 2019 51% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT 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
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $900k on record — $35k federal, $865k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
- GRANT IN AID$698k
- FEDERAL$90k
- TRUST FUND$45k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$20k
- BOND FUND$12k
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 PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC?
- PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,277 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($395,376). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,653,277 in grants to PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $395,376 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 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