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PHELPS ART CENTER INC

PHELPS ART CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,705 to it, the largest being MARY HICKS PRESTON HISTORICAL IMPROVEMENT & BETTERMENT FOUNDATION INC ($125,705). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$126k
Net assets
$138k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Phelps Art Center Inc does

Mission

To promote and encourage appreciation of the arts

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promotion of art displays instruction and demonstration

    $18,886 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,886.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 100 ($7k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 220 ($15k) Net assets 133 ($182k)2019 Revenue 24 ($14k) Expenses 272 ($18k) Net assets 130 ($178k)2020 Revenue 15 ($9k) Expenses 226 ($15k) Net assets 125 ($172k)2021 Revenue 21 ($13k) Expenses 240 ($16k) Net assets 123 ($168k)2022 Revenue 18 ($11k) Expenses 254 ($17k) Net assets 118 ($162k)2023 Revenue 20 ($12k) Expenses 268 ($18k) Net assets 114 ($156k)2024 Revenue 18 ($11k) Expenses 239 ($16k) Net assets 110 ($151k)2025 Revenue 19 ($11k) Expenses 351 ($24k) Net assets 101 ($138k)
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Revenue (19)Expenses (351)Net assets (101)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 2017 to 2018, from $137k to $182k (+33%).

$137k
$182k
$182k
$182k
$174k
$168k
$162k
$151k
$138k
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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.

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2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

15% of PHELPS ART CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$45k
’18
−$4k
’19
−$6k
’20
−$3k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$5k
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $5k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of PHELPS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PHELPS ART CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

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’23
New York 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

PHELPS ART CENTER INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $126k to it.

Operating margin−109% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In New York

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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 PHELPS ART CENTER INC?
PHELPS ART CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,705 to it, the largest being MARY HICKS PRESTON HISTORICAL IMPROVEMENT & BETTERMENT FOUNDATION INC ($125,705). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHELPS ART CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $125,705 in grants to PHELPS ART CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHELPS ART CENTER INC?
MARY HICKS PRESTON HISTORICAL IMPROVEMENT & BETTERMENT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHELPS ART CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1 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