Arizona · Nonprofit
WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL
WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,335 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $293k
What West Valley Arts Council does
Mission
West Valley Arts Council is a 501c3 nonprofit that serves the 13 municipalities that make up the west valley by acting as an advisor and advocate for inclusive art and culture, a creator and facilitator of innovative arts education programs for all ages, a resource and for local artists, and provider of leadership in identifying trends and impact of art and culture in the west valley. Through strategic partnerships we use our resources to connect and strengthen communities by growing art and cultural opportunities that include all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In the calendar year 2023, West Valley Arts Council coordinated professional development workshops for arts and music teachers. We served over 200 seniors through in person classes through our creative aging art programs. We also provided professional training to local artists and local organizations, equipping those individuals with the tools needed to lead success creative aging programs and classes. Our arts hq gallery coordinated and executed exhibits featuring local artists, hosted performances in partnership with surprise arts and culture advisory commission, and an artisan market. Overall, through our gallery events and activity we engaged 3500 community members. Our g37 program engaged local high school students with the opportunity plan, design, and pitch a public work concept for the city of goodyear. The program provided professional development, college credit, and stipends to each of the participating students.
$317,949 spent$188,562 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $317,949.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $761k to $561k (−26%).
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: 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 23% · 2022 33% · 2023 27% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Jessica Perry
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $48k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $160k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL’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
WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
32% 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 WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 71% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 60% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
96% of WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL 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 WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL: 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 WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL?
- WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,335 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $321,335 in grants to WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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