Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
POCONO ARTS COUNCIL
POCONO ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,051 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $0
What Pocono Arts Council does
Mission
Foster and support the arts through connection, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pocono Arts Council serves its members, community, and visitors through arts education and events. As a community organization opportunities are provided for artists and artisans at various stages of their careers and venues are provided for the public to interact with the arts and artists. Activities include workshops and classes, exhibitions throughout the community, fine craft festivals, studio tours, and the distribution of art and music scholarship awards to local graduating seniors with plans to study art or music in college.
$54,893 spent$54,957 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $54,893.
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 2024 to 2025, from $438k to $0 (−100%).
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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of POCONO ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Chief executive
Darice Pauselius
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 POCONO ARTS COUNCIL’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
POCONO ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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
100% of POCONO ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
POCONO ARTS COUNCIL's revenue fell 93% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding POCONO ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$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 POCONO ARTS COUNCIL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 POCONO ARTS COUNCIL: 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 POCONO ARTS COUNCIL?
- POCONO ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,051 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POCONO ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,051 in grants to POCONO ARTS COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POCONO ARTS COUNCIL?
- ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POCONO ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 3 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