Vermont · Nonprofit
RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC
RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,227 to it, the largest being VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ($156,578). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $630k
- Net assets
- $250k
What Rural Arts Collaborative Inc does
Mission
The mission is to cultivate lifelong learning and exploration to enrich our community, schools, and economy through creativity, conversation, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wonderarts: the organization offers accessible and year-round creative and recreational opportunities to youth throughout northeastern vermont. Wonderarts facilitates after-school and in-school programming at 11 schools, serving 35% of area children, ages 0-18, with enriching programming. School programs cover a vareity of age-appropriate topics ranging from interpretive movement, fiber arts, and songwriting for younger students, to entrrepreneurship, social justice, and community-building for high school teens. The organization provided after-school programming at 5 elementary schools, and in-school programs at 4 pre-schools as well as at craftsbury academy and hazen union high school. During the summer months, the organization offered 6 weeks of full-day camps centered around art, technology, and nature-based themese paired with other outdoor recreation and immersion. Youth programming provided economic opportunities to area professionals, employing independent contractors to lead classes, workshops, and camps. Throughout the year, the organization engaged community members of all ages, 18 - 100+, through enriching social, creative, and recreational opportunities and events. The…
$499,862 spent$432,098 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $499,862.
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 2023 to 2024, from $325k to $420k (+29%).
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 10% · 2019 14% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $168k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 39% · 2019 40% · 2020 50% · 2021 27% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% — 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
25% of RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k 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
RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Contr&3rd Pty-Participant$10k
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 RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,227 to it, the largest being VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ($156,578). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $630,227 in grants to RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC is the largest funder on record, with $156,578 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 19 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