Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS
THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,408,116 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE G FUND ($1,100,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Society for Art in Crafts does
Mission
To engage the public in the creative experience through contemporary craft.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Contemporary craft is one of the few arts organizations in the region whose core program - its exhibitions of work by top national and international contemporary artists - is free to the public. Since contemporary craft does not charge admission, every visitor who walks through the door, including audiences for whom fees may be a barrier to their attendance and/or participation, has the opportunity to directly interact with and experience high-quality contemporary art. Each year, contemporary craft produces 3 exhibitions at its main gallery; 3-4 small scale exhibitions in its gerri kay exhibition cases; and 1-4 traveling exhibitions at any given time. Many items in the galleries are available for sale.
$320,100 spent$12,619 earned by the program30% of program spendingContemporary craft's education studio has three large studios that offer classes and workshops taught by national, regional and local artists, along with a free drop in studio where visitors can make art at any time to take home with them. A vibrant nationally based arts program, fully integrated into the exhibitions program, is central to contemporary craft's definition of artistic and cultural quality as well as to its ability to successfully carry out its mission and build future audiences. In addition to regular education programs, contemporary craft engages community partners and hosts various public programs that are available to individual members or community organizations who may not have access to quality arts programming.
$506,858 spent$182,948 earned by the program48% of program spendingContemporary craft's distinctive retail space, the store, represents the work of top regional, national and international artists. Proceeds from the store help support free exhibition, education and outreach programs, as well as the participating artists. The store is also designed to be an extension of the gallery, often showing larger, more commercial bodies of work by artists featured in the current exhibition, and always focused on educating visitors about artists and their creative processes.
$225,261 spent$50,423 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,052,219.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.2M to $14M (+49%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 37% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Rachel Rearick
Executive director
Board chair
Alexander Neal
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $176k → $410k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
26% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 41% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 18% — 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
58% of THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
50% of THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
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 THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: 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 THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS?
- THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,408,116 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE G FUND ($1,100,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,408,116 in grants to THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS?
- THE GEORGE G FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 42 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