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STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC

STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,550 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,600). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$146k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$236k
Net assets
$181k
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Studio Place Arts Inc does

Mission

The mission of SPA is to provide the general public with a vital center for the visual arts through: (1) Mounting original exhibits; (2) Teaching a broad spectrum of visual arts and crafts; (3) Creating opportunities for people to see and interact with working artists (4) Renting studios to working artists at reasonable rates.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

  1. Studio place arts conducted workshops and classes for the general public on making art and crafts, and art learning opportunities through studio experiences and lectures, and a diverse schedule of art exhibitions throughout the year in which artists who cannot display or sell art in other forums may participate. Studio place arts has a studio residence program providing artists workspace.

    $122,620 spent$12,073 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $122,620.

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 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($279k)2018 Revenue 73 ($92k) Expenses 108 ($125k) Net assets 88 ($246k)2019 Revenue 88 ($111k) Expenses 95 ($110k) Net assets 89 ($247k)2020 Revenue 92 ($115k) Expenses 99 ($115k) Net assets 89 ($248k)2021 Revenue 98 ($124k) Expenses 93 ($108k) Net assets 95 ($264k)2022 Revenue 92 ($116k) Expenses 107 ($123k) Net assets 92 ($257k)2023 Revenue 245 ($309k) Expenses 255 ($295k) Net assets 97 ($271k)2024 Revenue 98 ($124k) Expenses 165 ($191k) Net assets 73 ($204k)2025 Revenue 116 ($146k) Expenses 146 ($169k) Net assets 65 ($181k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (146)Net assets (65)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 2023 to 2024, from $556k to $474k (−15%).

$575k
$540k
$527k
$522k
$528k
$508k
$556k
$474k
$438k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$32k
’18
$771
’19
$800
’20
$16k
’21
−$8k
’22
$14k
’23
−$67k
’24
−$23k
’25
4.3
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

Sue Higby

Executive director

Board chair

Darryl Garland

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $93k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 STUDIO PLACE ARTS 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

STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

35% 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 STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC.

24%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 38% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 33% — 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

50% of STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 7 states in all.

VT
NY
MA
CA
MD
DE
FL

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.

State$35k
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Top programs
  • Grants$25k
  • Comm Based Family Resources$10k
  • Property - Land$300

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 STUDIO PLACE ARTS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 21%Fundraising 7%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC?
STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,550 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,600). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $235,550 in grants to STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC?
THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STUDIO PLACE ARTS 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing