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PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION
PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,312 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($64,298). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $702k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $187k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Foundation does
Mission
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) continues to work on the mission of connecting people to the arts and inspiring the artist in every person. Primary programming at the PAFAC in 2025 included hosting 3 seasonal outdoor festivals, rotating art exhibits in the gallery, and supporting local schools by hosting field trips and visiting classrooms.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EXHIBITS: The PAFAC hosted 4 art gallery exhibits, 15 interactive art and educational workshops, and the annual Makers Market. The gallery gift store and Maker's Market activities in 2025 supported 83 artists and PAFAC contributed $92,965 towards the livelihood of these artists. Over 5800 visitors came into the art gallery.
$165,646 spent$55,632 earned by the program28% of program spendingEVENTS:The PAFAC hosted 3 seasonal festivals in 2025 in Webster's Woods, the 5-acre Sculpture Park that surrounds the gallery facility. The summer and fall festivals each welcomed more than 500 people and featured live entertainment, interactive art stations, and live readings by authors as well as food and drink vendors. The winter program (called Wintertide) took place over a month-long period in November and December and included the Wintertide Festival of Lights, Light Art Experience in Webster's Woods, and a holiday Makers Market in the gallery. The winter season program brought 6715 visits to the park to enjoy the light-based art installations along the forested paths of Webster's Woods. PAFAC was proud to offer unique experiences for people of all ages to engage in and experience the arts.
$150,277 spent$113,142 earned by the program25% of program spendingYOUTH EDUCATION:In addition to festivals and gallery exhibits, the PAFAC hosted 18 field trips to our campus for students ages 5-11. PAFAC visited classrooms throughout the school year, bringing art enrichment to local schools for 3 schools and more than 500 students. The culmination of the school year was the display of student artwork in our gallery during the Blooming Artists exhibition. PAFAC also hosted two weeks of Nature Art Summer Camp, engaging 114 students in four different Art Camps.
$91,953 spent$49,179 earned by the program15% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAMMING: PAFAC managed a grant totaling $108,000 from the City of Port Angeles to upgrade the Webster Woods' trail and public park space and for general operations of the PAFAC. Other programs included art workshops and evening events hosted at the facility, further connecting people with the arts.
$108,483 spent$58,567 earned by the program18% of program spendingSpecial projects
$80,669 spent$58,567 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,028.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.4M (−22%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% · 2024 46% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION’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. 4 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
Christine Loewe
Executive Director
Board chair
Alex Wilson
Foundation Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $55 → $68k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION’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
PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 28% · 2022 100% · 2023 37% — 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
80% of PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
58% of PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION'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 $80k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$31k
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 PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION?
- PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,312 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($64,298). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $187,312 in grants to PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $64,298 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORT ANGELES FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 9 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