Washington · Nonprofit
Terrain Programs
Terrain Programs (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,800 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($750,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $769k
What Terrain Programs does
Mission
Working to ensure artists, makers, and culture creators thrive in the Inland Northwest. We provide full-spectrum, hands-on, scalable resources including training, venues, business advice, and other support, to artists and culture creators, by building community, generating prosperity, and enriching the quality of life, of the places where they live and work. Our vision is an Inland Northwest rich in arts, culture, and economic prosperity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
From Here - since moving to our larger location in 2019 our retail program has continued to grow now representing 120 participating artists. Our full-time manager has helped us to meet our goals for the shop and use the shop to further support artists. The shop has continued our ability to amplify local artists in our community and expose their work to a broader audience. In 2023, the shop continued to exceed our goals for sales putting more money back into artists pockets.
$527,731 spent$566,611 earned by the program59% of program spendingTerrain Gallery - In 2023 we continued operating our Terrain Gallery in its location on north Monroe St. We have continued to host monthly gallery shows. We?ve worked hard to increase the diversity of artists we serve, our 2023 shows featured 31 local and traveling artists, seven of which identify as BIPOC/LGBTQ2SIA+, and 10 of which identify as womxn. In addition we opened The Annex within the Terrain Gallery that now acts as a retail wing of the Terrain Gallery. Showcasing a wide variety of work from 30-ish local artists. The Annex gives the community the opportunity to buy artwork directory off the wall.
$182,717 spent$227,842 earned by the program20% of program spendingAdditional Programs - We completed and unveiled our community mural This is East Central. This is East Central is a culmination of 4+ years of work, and consists of a 130 ft mural installed at the Carl Maxey Center, and an accompanying website (storiesofeastcentral.com) debuting in Q1 of 2024. 191 East Central residents are featured in the mural - 65 children, 126 adults - and 20 different individual?s stories will launch the site. We continued our new program, Terrain Talks, an informal (and FREE!) lecture series catered to artists who want to learn business tips from local professionals. We had a total of 66 artists attend our 3 Terrain Talks covering topics such as How to Run a Successful Market Booth and Business Ownership as a QTBIPOC Ent. Bazaar and BrrrZAAR, our one-day art markets, featured 212 arts-based businesses, $424,026.00 accrued in sales, and saw thousands of Spokanites eager to build relationships with local artists. Terrain 14 was even bigger than the year before with 397 artists showcased and continuing in the same great location as 2022, Jensen-Byrd (empty building in Downtown Spokane) into a three level, multimedia art and music experience. And perhaps most…
$158,609 spent$174,419 earned by the program18% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Additional Programs - We completed and unveiled our community mural This is East Central. This is East Central is a culmination of 4+ years of work, and consists of a 130 ft mural installed at the Carl Maxey Center, and an accompanying website (storiesofeastcentral.com) debuting in Q1 of 2024. 191 East Central residents are featured in the mural - 65 children, 126 adults - and 20 different individual?s stories will launch the site. We continued our new program, Terrain Talks, an informal (and FREE!) lecture series catered to artists who want to learn business tips from local professionals. We had a total of 66 artists attend our 3 Terrain Talks covering topics such as How to Run a Successful Market Booth and Business Ownership as a QTBIPOC Ent. Bazaar and BrrrZAAR, our one-day art markets, featured 212 arts-based businesses, $424,026.00 accrued in sales, and saw thousands of Spokanites eager to build relationships with local artists. Terrain 14 was even bigger than the year before with 397 artists showcased and continuing in the same great location as 2022, Jensen-Byrd (empty building in Downtown Spokane) into a three level, multimedia art and music…
$24,264 spent$57,100 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $893,321.
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 $323k to $637k (+97%).
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 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Terrain Programs’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $42k → $153k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Terrain Programs’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
Terrain Programs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Terrain Programs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 81% · 2020 93% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 46% — 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
17% of Terrain Programs's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
91% of Terrain Programs's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k 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.
Against its field
Terrain Programs has grown faster 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
Organizations like Terrain Programs
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Terrain Programs?
- Terrain Programs (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,800 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($750,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Terrain Programs have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,948,800 in grants to Terrain Programs, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Terrain Programs?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Terrain Programs 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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