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Alliance for California Traditional Arts

ACTA's mission is to ensure that California's future holds California's past.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$997kReligion$437kPhilanthropy$103kScience & Tech$103kHuman Services$75kEducation$50kCommunity Improvement$27kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 48 grants below total $675,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,117,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,442,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k47 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Backyard 4 Life LLC$50,000
Agua Sol y Sereno INC$25,000
Dancers Group$25,000
Cambodian American Resource A$25,000
Another Level Training Academ$12,500
Manilatown Heritage Foundatio$12,500
Purple Silk Music Education$12,500
Oakland Public Conservatory$12,500
Generaciones en Accion$12,500
El Teatro de la Tierra$12,500
Center for Training & Careers$12,500
Association for the Advanceme$12,500
CubaCaribe$12,500
The East LA Society of Film$12,500
Fund for Resource Conservatio$12,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hmong Youth and Parents Unite: $13k → 12%Celebration Nation Inc: $13k → 8%Somos Familia: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$126k · 5 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$126k
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SO
    SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
    2× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +107%
  • DC
    Diamano Coura West African Dance Co
    2× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +346%
  • DD
    DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER INCORPORATED
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WF
    Walter & Flora Hewlett Found
    one grant, 2020 · $103k
  • WA
    WALTER AND ELISE HAAS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue -37%
  • SF
    SURDNA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
2
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
3
Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas

Carnaval San Francisco cultivates and celebrates the diverse Latin American, Caribbean, and African roots of the Mission District and the San Francisco Bay Area. We accomplish our mission through dance, music, the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Herencia Hispana San Diego

Unite all latino americans

Membership Benefit
5
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
—
6
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
7
Hispanic Heritage Literature

Culture advance and literature

Arts & Culture
8
Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts

Dance, theater and music

Arts & Culture
9
Ecuador Cultural Alliance
Education
10
Comite Cultural Mexicano
Arts & Culture
11
Casa de la Cultura Inc

Casa de la Cultura was created as an entity that would support and foster the growth and promotion of LatinoHispanic arts in our region Casa de la Cultura is dedicated to creating space where Hispanic artists can grow showcase and promote…

Arts & Culture
12
Floricanto Dance Theatre

Danza Floricanto/USA - founded in 1975 by Gema Sandoval. Danza Floricanto/USA is the oldest existing professional Mexican folk dance troupe in Los Angeles. As professional dancers, their purpose is to preserve Mexican culture, validate it…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School of Arts and Culture At Mhp and the most unlike its peers is Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%12%<5yr16%19%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr12%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%12%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
14%
12,393/87,311

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
20/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Walter & Flora Hewlett Found — $102,500 · OtherWalter & Flora Hewlett FoundWALTER AND ELISE HAAS FUND — $52,500 · OtherWALTER AND ELISE HAAS FUNDBackyard 4 Life LLC — $50,000 · OtherBackyard 4 Life LLCEL TEATRO DE LA TIERRA — $41,500 · OtherEL TEATRO DE LA TIERRAKINGS REGIONAL TRADITIONAL FOLK ARTS INC — $29,000 · OtherKINGS REGIONAL TRADITIONAL FOLK ARTS INCCAMBODIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE AGENCY — $25,000 · OtherMERCED LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY INC — $19,500 · Other+16 more — $194,500 · Other+16 moreDANCERS GROUP — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUPAGUA SOL Y SERENO INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureAGUA SOL Y SERENO INCSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $22,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHPDiamano Coura West African Dance Co — $22,500 · Arts & CultureDiamano Coura West African Dance CoDANZANTES UNIDOS DE CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDANZANTES UNIDOS DE CALIFORNIADIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER INCORPORATEDCulturas Music & Arts — $12,500 · Arts & CultureNa Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau — $12,500 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF FILIPINO AMERICAN — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MAHEA UCHIYAMA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DANCE — $12,500 · Arts & CultureLa Pea Cultural Center Inc — $12,500 · Arts & CultureManilatown Heritage Foundation — $12,500 · Arts & CultureMARIGOLD PROJECT INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureEAST LA SOCIETY OF FILM & ARTS — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCHAVALOS DE AQUI Y ALLA — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCUBACARIBE — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCHAKSAM-PA — $12,500 · Arts & CulturePURPLE SILK MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTRINITY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $12,500 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $12,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureLITTLE MANILA RISING — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $17,000 · Arts & CultureSURDNA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS — $12,500 · EducationKumeyaay Community College Inc — $12,500 · EducationGENERACIONES EN ACCION — $12,500 · EducationLATINOS UNIDOS DEL CONDADO DE SONOM — $12,500 · EducationSomos Familia — $12,500 · Human ServicesHMONG YOUTH AND PARENTS UNITED — $12,500 · Human ServicesCELEBRATION NATION INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesKULTIVATE LABS — $12,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $12,500 · Community ImprovementANOTHER LEVEL TRAINING ACADEMY — $12,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$514,500Arts & Culture$351,500Philanthropy$50,000Education$50,000Human Services$37,500Community Improvement$25,000Crime & Legal$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWALTER AND ELISE HAAS FUND — $52,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURDNA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL TEATRO DE LA TIERRA — $41,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetKINGS REGIONAL TRADITIONAL FOLK ARTS INC — $29,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAGUA SOL Y SERENO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDiamano Coura West African Dance Co — $22,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetMERCED LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY INC — $19,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCulturas Music & Arts — $12,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO VALLEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNa Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau — $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSomos Familia — $12,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetANOTHER LEVEL TRAINING ACADEMY — $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MAHEA UCHIYAMA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DANCE — $12,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKULTIVATE LABS — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetManilatown Heritage Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMARIGOLD PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR TRAINING & CAREERS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST LA SOCIETY OF FILM & ARTS — $12,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetCHAVALOS DE AQUI Y ALLA — $12,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCUBACARIBE — $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHMONG YOUTH AND PARENTS UNITED — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKumeyaay Community College Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPURPLE SILK MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $12,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGENERACIONES EN ACCION — $12,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuco Vietnamese Cultural Center — $12,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetINDIGENOUS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetMUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLATINOS UNIDOS DEL CONDADO DE SONOM — $12,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetTataviam Land Conservancy — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCELEBRATION NATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL ORGANIZATION OF OAXACA — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMODESTO CAMBODIAN BUDDHIST SOCIETY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Zellerbach Family…The James Irvine Foun…Latino Community Foun…The San Francisco Fou…Kenneth Rainin Founda…The California Endowm…The William & Flora H…Center for Cultural I…California HumanitiesAmalgamated Charitabl…Public Health Institu…Gerbode Foundation
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · California Humanities · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Public Health Institute · Gerbode Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alliance for California Traditional Arts funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alliance for California Traditional Arts?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance for California Traditional Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.4M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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