New York · Nonprofit
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,667,760 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($2,580,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc does
Mission
Skowhegan, primarily a summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and artistically varied group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth. Skowhegan also sponsors programs primarily in new york city during fall, winter and spring to foster its mission among alumni and the visual arts community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School summer program:school of painting and sculpture summer program attended by 59 students
$2,547,499 spentof which $300,049 as grants$441,675 earned by the program94% of program spendingAlliance and alumni activites:skowhegan alliance and alumni activities including programs, events and special projects
$162,606 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,710,105.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $37M (+18%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Eleanor Acquavella
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $718k → $1.7M.
18 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. 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
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 23% · 2019 33% · 2020 34% · 2021 30% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% — 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
37% of SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
73% of SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC?
- SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,667,760 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($2,580,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $11,667,760 in grants to SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC?
- ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP is the largest funder on record, with $2,580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 86 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