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SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY

SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,700 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($66,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$124k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$99k
Net assets
$4k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Souwester Artist Residency does

Mission

Provide opportunities for creative expression

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Wave of the future preschool

    $124,935 spent
    98% of program spending
  2. Ilwaco art works studio

    $2,983 spent
    2% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,918.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($155k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2022 Revenue 101 ($124k) Expenses 82 ($128k) Net assets 54 ($4k)
20212022
Revenue (101)Expenses (82)Net assets (54)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 2021 to 2022, from $13k to $6k (−52%).

$13k
$6k
20212022
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.

2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY’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. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’21
−$3k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $24k.

Funder
'20
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Artsfundunclassified
$66k
funders
1
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY’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

SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

80% 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 SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

87% of SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
NY

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

’20
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,683 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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 SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY: 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 SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY?
SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,700 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($66,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $98,700 in grants to SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY?
ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUWESTER ARTIST RESIDENCY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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