Washington · Nonprofit
ShoreLake Arts
ShoreLake Arts (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,268 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($41,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $179k
What ShoreLake Arts does
Mission
Our mission is to cultivate and inspire our community through the arts. We accomplish this by creating events, oportunities, and education programs which uphold our values of inclusivity, fiscal responsibility, community, inspiration, respect/kindness
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Shorelake Arts chose to close its retail Galley operation in the Lake Forest Park shopping mall. Gallery display and retail sales will continue in the new office space in Shoreline.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Our Arts Education and Outreach program provides summer camps for k-8 students and visual arts classes for all ages throughout the year, designed to develope ceativity, critical thinking, collaborative learning and cultural awareness. ShoreLake Arts Education division is lead by a certified and tenured art instructor and all class teachers are practicing artists, one of the many ways we support artists. To address equity in access to art, we bring art to the community by providing free hands-on art opportunities at multiple community events through out the year and downloadable DIY art projects created by professional artists. In 2024 our free hands-on art program grew to serve over 700 budding artists, doubling the community members served in 2023.
$83,341 spent$44,720 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe ShoreLake Arts Gallery exhibits and sells the work of local artists each year, helping artists build and develop their carreers. In addition to its rotating exhibits and ongoing sales, the Gallery connects the community with art through free, hands-on art to increase knowledge of new artists and art techniques. The Gallery remains home to the Little Free Art Studio where the community exchanges art materials and books. As of the Fall of 2024 the Gallery is in a new location at the heart of a Shoreline neighborhood business district. The new location includes office and classroom space and provides increased exhibit space, enables ShoreLake Atrs to host more community events and to showcase an even greater variety of work from local and emerging artisits. ShorLake Arts now also curates and hosts local artist exhibits in area restaurants.
$69,798 spent$55,010 earned by the program29% of program spendingArts Culture offerings include free public events such as the summer Concerts in the Park series Shakespeare in the Park the Dia de Muertos Celebration a Lunar New Year Lantern Festival and the Underground Holiday Market. The program also produces one ticketed event - the Shoreline Short Short Film Festival - where winners take home cash prizws. In 2024, over 8,000 people attended in-person events, of which, ovwer 80 participated in free events.
$70,747 spent$43,231 earned by the program29% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 20,000. Grants and allocations 0 Revenue 0. Shorelake Arts is pursuing the expansion of its community arts focused mission by building a new arts center. Whyb this project At ShoreLake Arts we envision a world where we can produce culturally rich, quality arts programs that intrigue diverse audiences of all ages where we can help children experience the arts in its myriad forms and where a vibrant creative economy offers everyone meaningful access to art and art-making. The path to achieving this vision lies with building a new space - a space dedicated to the arts and to artists a new space for the community to gather, connect and celebrate the arts a new space where shildren can experience making art and a new space where can afford to live, make art, and enrich our community.
$20,000 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $243,886.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $289k to $215k (−26%).
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: 2019 23% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Laura James
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $23k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ShoreLake Arts’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
ShoreLake Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 ShoreLake Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — 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
82% of ShoreLake Arts's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ShoreLake Arts: 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 ShoreLake Arts?
- ShoreLake Arts (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,268 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($41,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ShoreLake Arts have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $68,268 in grants to ShoreLake Arts, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ShoreLake Arts?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ShoreLake Arts 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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