Washington · Nonprofit
TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES
TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,861 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($75,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Tieton Arts and Humanities does
Mission
Tieton Arts and Humanities enriches and celebrates our community through artistic and cultural programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
creARTe: After 10+ years, Tieton's summer Art in the Park program has grown up! We have expanded it to offer high quality, cocurricular programming for K12 kids in the Upper Yakima Valley all year long. The program is now called creARTe, a portmanteau of create+art, that works in both Spanish and in English. We are partnering with the Highland School District to create experiences that complement school lessons in both content and approach. Nearly all of our after school, summer, and weekend programming for creARTe happens at our new permanent home, at 807 Tieton Ave.
$11,168 spent36% of program spendingDia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a vibrant community celebration honoring both los muertos and beauty of life. Day of the Dead celebrations began in Central America, and have roots in indigenous and Catholic traditions. Sweet sugar skulls, bright colors, and bitter smelling cempazuchitl (calendula, or marigold) flowers evoke vibrant, ephemeral life and bitter, inevitable death; embracing both. Each year Tieton Arts & Humanities creates on huge community altar and we invite everyone to add to it. 1000+ visitors bring photos of loved ones, write messages, and bring mementos, candies, or foods. This provides a unique opportunity to remember the special people in our lives that are no longer with us. The day of celebration features arts and crafts activities, a sand painting by Seattle based Oaxacan artist Fulgencio Lazo, sugar skull decorating and more! The gallery exhibition runs for five weeks afterward. Admission is always free and everyone is welcome.
$16,535 spent54% of program spending10x10x10Tieton: A juried exhibition, Tieton Arts & Humanities invites artists to submit work that is not larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches. Works can be of any media or process from photo, painting, printmaking, book arts, video, ceramic, glass, metal, wood, and more. In 2021, jurors invited 187 submissions of 875 received from around the globe, creating one of the most diverse shows in the Yakima Valley. In person and online gallery sales support artists and the organization. 2024 was the last year for this program.
$1,479 spent5% of program spendingLiTFUSE is Tieton Arts & Humanities first program. Founded in 2007 by Michael Schein, LiTFUSE began as an annual weekend long poets' workshop. LiTFUSE UNiTE Poets' Workshop has always been inclusive & welcoming to poets of all ages, levels, backgrounds and styles. The mission of LiTFUSE is to unite all kinds of poets throughout the Northwest and beyond, and to open us to fresh voices and inspiration, and to deepen community with our fellow poets and artists. LiTFUSE FUEL: Featured Reader & Open Mic Series launched in May 2022. This monthly event takes place every fourth Saturday (Feb-Nov). FUEL is free and open to the public. Featured readers have included Raul Sanchez, Kristin Berger, Derek Sheffield, Alberto Sveum, and Michael Schmeltzer.
$651 spent2% of program spendingImagine a doorway, a portal through which your donated arts and craft supplies pass to children and adults who love to create! Maybe you still have boxes of crayons and markers that your children enjoyed, but oops now they are in college! Doesn't your Aunt Lydia have boxes of fabric and yarn that she no longer uses? Is it time to sort your bookshelves and donate all the art and how to books? Are you a teacher? Would you love supplies for your classroom? The Portal Project donates art and craft supplies to: children, adults, and teachers. We seek out programs serving youth and adults that can use our donations. We sponsor super art materials giveaways during TA&H programming! We can pass along just about any clean and usable material including... pencils, crayons, markers, paints, brushes, magazines, fabric, scissors, colored paper, toilet paper rolls, plastic containers for water, brayers, printmaking ink, books, woodworking scraps... the list goes on and on.
$877 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,710.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $95k to $50k (−48%).
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: 2020 36% · 2021 12% · 2022 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $72k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES’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
TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 93% · 2020 62% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — 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
29% of TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
80% of TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES
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.
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 TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES?
- TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,861 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($75,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $416,861 in grants to TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIETON ARTS AND HUMANITIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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