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SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC

SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,226 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ($100,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$640k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$246k
Net assets
$925k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Shemer Art Center & Museum Assoc Inc does

Mission

The shemer art center offers a unique setting in which members and visitors can learn about and enjoy visual art through classes, workshops, lectures, exhibitions and events. Its mission is to support and showcase arizona artists

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Shemer art center's mission to support and showcase arizona art is realized through its programs as well as sales of art created by arizona artists for its gift shop, exhibitions, and sculpture garden.during 2024, shemer art center held 170 adult and youth classes, 38 workshops, 15 art history and architecture lectures, 12 exhibits and 5 community events. Summer camps for children ages 6 - 13 were held over 4 weeks in june. Shemer art center activities were supported by 396 volunteers in 2024.

    $293,239 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $293,239.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($284k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 126 ($365k) Expenses 110 ($311k) Net assets 180 ($122k)2019 Revenue 117 ($339k) Expenses 120 ($341k) Net assets 176 ($119k)2020 Revenue 230 ($666k) Expenses 114 ($324k) Net assets 686 ($463k)2021 Revenue 190 ($551k) Expenses 132 ($374k) Net assets 965 ($652k)2022 Revenue 150 ($434k) Expenses 143 ($406k) Net assets 976 ($659k)2023 Revenue 241 ($698k) Expenses 183 ($519k) Net assets 1242 ($839k)2024 Revenue 221 ($640k) Expenses 194 ($551k) Net assets 1370 ($925k)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (194)Net assets (1370)Peer revenue range

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 $119k to $563k (+374%).

$68k
$122k
$119k
$563k
$652k
$659k
$839k
$925k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$54k
’18
−$2k
’19
$342k
’20
$177k
’21
$28k
’22
$179k
’23
$89k
’24
6.8
months of
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

Shonna James

Executive director

Board chair

Chris Orkild

Chairman/TREAS

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed99767889
Joined·+4+2+2+1+2+0+3
No longer listed·4430102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $41k.

6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC 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

SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC.

41%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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

40% of SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

95% of SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC

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In Arizona

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 31%Fundraising 15%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC?
SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,226 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ($100,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $246,226 in grants to SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX is the largest funder on record, with $100,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEMER ART CENTER & MUSEUM ASSOC INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing