California · Nonprofit
PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,663 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $382k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Plumas County Arts Commission does
Mission
Missions statement: Plumas Arts cultivates communities in which arts & culture flourish." Goals : Cultivate showcases of arts & culture that enrich quality of life for the residents of, and visitors to, Plumas CountyEnhance & provide opportunities for artistic development & excellence for artists, potential artists and audiences of all agesPresent local arts and culture as a community building force and economic resourceAdvocate for, and educate about, the value of The ArtsSustain a strong and vibrant organization in service to our membership, residents and visitors
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTATIONS:Town Hall Theatre Artist Series brings an impressive array of internationally renowned artists to local audiences. Many of these artists have regional or national fan bases that are choosing to travel to our area from some distances to see their favorite musicians in an intimate setting. An estimated 10-20% of our audience comes from out of the county with overnight, or longer, stays in conjunction with their attendance at our performances. On concert nights restaurants also report record business.Words & Music came to life at Quincy's Morning Thunder in Quincy in 1989 with a Plumas Arts grant from the California Arts Council. This monthly (dark July to September) poetry and acoustic music series with an open mic section has also found homes in Chester and Portola. The program serves to coalesce cultural community enclaves and has been reproduced by neighboring arts councils.Plumas Arts and local music education business Face the Music sponsor an annual concert by the High Sierra Community & Youth Orchestra: Plumas County's first orchestra with as many as 45 musicians of all ages playing together on violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, woodwinds, brass…
$126,184 spent36% of program spendingVISUAL ARTS : Since 1998 the Plumas Arts Gallery has shared space with our administrative offices in Quincy. Our Gallery showcases the fine work of local artists with a changing schedule of exhibitions and opening receptions. The gallery displays and sells the work of at least 60 visual, musical and literary artists. Rotating Art Displays are also hosted at Patti's Thunder Caf.After a decade-long respite, Plumas Arts returned in 2007, at the request of fair management, to coordinate the Art Barn at the Plumas-Sierra County Fair. This monumental effort involves more than 350 hours of service by dozens of volunteers to provide an attractive display of artwork by Plumas and Sierra County residents of all ages and abilities. The Fair Board and Fair Staff have applauded our effort.
$98,870 spent28% of program spendingARTS EDUCATION: Our Plumas Arts Education programs have been supported by: school site councils and PTAs, the Plumas County Office of Education and Plumas Unified School District, and a three year cycle of California Arts Council Local Arts Education Partnership Grants. In 1999 the effort was one of only 15 programs to be funded statewide by the State Office of Education ART WORKS Visual & Performing Arts Program. From 2000 to 2002 our art education programs were selected as one of only 35 recipients statewide, and one of only 4 in Northern California to be determined as a California Arts Council Arts in Education Demonstration Site.Artist in the Schools Program provides hands-on artist workshops in every county K-6 classroom. School Arts Assembly Programs are often offered to county schools, often in conjunction with the Town Hall Theatre Artist Series performing arts presentations. The program currently operates with a CAC Artist in the Schools grant matched with funds from the Plumas County Office of Education and school site supporting groups and formerly the Bill Graham and now the High Sierra Music Foundations. All County Jazz Night brings all the high school jazz bands to…
$81,471 spent23% of program spendingCULTURAL FESTIVALS AND EVENTS: Plumas Arts produces Taste of Plumas each April. Always a "sold-out" successful event, we bring 20+ culinary businesses from all parts of the county together in one place. Restaurants and business owners come willingly to take part in this festive gathering that has helped to promote their culinary artistry to discretionary diners across and beyond county and community boundaries.Plumas Arts has managed one of Northern California's oldest and most respected exhibitions of fine arts and crafts, the Almanor Art Show since 1983. It takes place the first weekend in August and showcases a variety of types of art by 100 artists from around the Western US.Mountain Harvest Festival, in October, is a community music and beer tasting event that attracts an impressive collection of microbreweries from throughout the Western US and beyond. The event, which has received generous coverage in VIA magazine and other regional media, attracts people from near and far to enjoy our glorious Fall Colors and community feel.SUPPORTING EVENTS WITH PARTNERSHIPSPlumas Arts assists our partner events producers with many of Plumas County's most significant events by providing…
$46,959 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,484.
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 2019 to 2020, from $998k to $1.2M (+16%).
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 11% · 2018 36% · 2019 36% · 2020 26% · 2021 45% · 2022 47% · 2023 34% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION’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 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $21.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION’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
PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 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
71% of PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION is better cushioned 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
Government funding PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION?
- PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,663 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,663 in grants to PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION 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 4 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