Arizona · Nonprofit
WHAM ART ASSOCIATION
WHAM ART ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,931 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT J WEATHERHEAD III FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $370k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $342k
What Wham Art Association does
Mission
Wham's mission is to provide innovateive, multidisciplinary, arts-inclusive programming, exhibits, and projects to the diverse communities wer serve. As an organziation we are interested in enhancing economic development and artistic collaboration for our member, the community, and other organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wham's mission is to provide innovateive, multidisciplinary, arts-inclusive programming, exhibits, and projects to the diverse communities wer serve. As an organziation we are interested in enhancing economic development and artistic collaboration for our member, the community, and other organizations.
$14,614 spent12% of program spendingWham's mission is to provide innovateive, multidisciplinary, arts-inclusive programming, exhibits, and projects to the diverse communities wer serve. As an organziation we are interested in enhancing economic development and artistic collaboration for our member, the community, and other organizations.
$104,204 spent88% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,818.
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 $164k to $289k (+76%).
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 14% · 2021 23% · 2022 13% · 2023 25% · 2024 25% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of WHAM ART ASSOCIATION’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. 1 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
Jay Leonard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $50k → $15k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 WHAM ART ASSOCIATION’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
WHAM ART ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 WHAM ART ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 69% · 2021 69% · 2022 60% · 2023 61% — 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 WHAM ART ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
WHAM ART ASSOCIATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WHAM ART ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WHAM ART ASSOCIATION
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
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHAM ART ASSOCIATION: 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 WHAM ART ASSOCIATION?
- WHAM ART ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,931 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT J WEATHERHEAD III FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHAM ART ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $228,931 in grants to WHAM ART ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHAM ART ASSOCIATION?
- THE ALBERT J WEATHERHEAD III FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHAM ART ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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