Kentucky · Nonprofit
ROWLAND ARTS CENTER
ROWLAND ARTS CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,007,122 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($994,622). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $106k
What Rowland Arts Center does
Mission
Through the Rowland Arts Center, our mission is to encourage the young people in our community to dream big and to equip them with the education, resources, and skills they need to be successful in middle and high school and life beyond. A key component of the rac is the development of transformational relationships. Our team which is primarily made of volunteers who are passionate about raising up the young people in our community - will invest their time and energy as mentors, seeking first to offer an environment of safety and trust, then working intentionally to have meaningful conversations with the students. Through these relationships, our mentors will identify areas of need for the students physical, emotional, academic, etc. And work to develop plans and/or programs to help meet these needs. Our volunteers are caring adults who come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences (I.e. Teachers, counselors, musicians, pastors, etc.) who desire to see positive, tangible change in
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mentors and meals - partner with high school students with at-risk 6th and 7th grade students to provide tutoring and a hot meal.
$134,237 spent75% of program spendingDrop in - offer a safe environment for middle and high school students to enjoy recreational activities.
$43,586 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $177,823.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
100% of ROWLAND ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $131k → $142k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ROWLAND ARTS CENTER’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
ROWLAND ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 ROWLAND ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of ROWLAND ARTS CENTER'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $995k 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
ROWLAND ARTS CENTER receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROWLAND ARTS CENTER
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROWLAND ARTS CENTER?
- ROWLAND ARTS CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,007,122 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($994,622). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROWLAND ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,007,122 in grants to ROWLAND ARTS CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROWLAND ARTS CENTER?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $994,622 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROWLAND ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), 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