Virginia · Nonprofit
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,637 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($357,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $713k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the suffolk center for cultural arts is to "cultivate, promote, and provide access to the creative arts for all residents and visitors through programs, education, and outreach.". We value the need for artistic expression and believe exposure to diverse artistic expressions is an essential element of any modern thriving city. We also value life-long learning and believe that all people, throughout their lifespan, deserve access to the creative, educational, and developmental opportunities we conduct through the arts. Finally, we value collaboration, inclusion, and sustainability, all of which are interdependent and essential to the growth of the suffolk center, as well as to the quality of life in the suffolk community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The 2024-2025 season was a success for the suffolk center for cultural arts. Although we are very proud of all the events we conducted throughout the year, including theatrical performances, concerts, art exhibitions, and more, we are most proud of the impact that our hundreds of youth contact hours had on our community. The suffolk center engaged thousands of youth in our creative summer camps, educational matinees, and our award winning "artist in schools" outreach program, all of which provided meaningful educational experiences through the arts. We are also proud of how much we used the arts to support those in need. Our inaugural magical christmas tree tour provided a wonderland of trees decorated by local businesses, organizations, and city departments the public then voted for their favorite trees by placing non-perishable food donations under the tree of their choice we raised nearly twenty-five hundred food items for the forkids food pantry. The center also hosted an empty bowls event in which nearly 300 bowls were donated by local potters, raising nearly eight thousand dollars for our local food bank. The suffolk center for cultural arts and the city of suffolk have…
$1,729,965 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,729,965.
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 2021 to 2022, from $17M to $19M (+10%).
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 28% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 13% · 2023 20% · 2024 32% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Joleen E Neighbours Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $69k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION’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
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 65% · 2019 65% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 67% · 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
71% of SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
64% of SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION'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 $255k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION?
- SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,637 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($357,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $712,637 in grants to SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $357,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 13 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