How much does Alliance for California Traditional Arts give?

Alliance for California Traditional Arts reported 48 itemized grants totaling $675,000, out of $2,117,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does Alliance for California Traditional Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Religion (23%), Philanthropy (5%).

Who are Alliance for California Traditional Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Walter and Elise Haas Fund ($53k), Backyard 4 Life LLC ($50k), Surdna Foundation Inc ($50k).

Does Alliance for California Traditional Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for California Traditional Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Latino Community Foundation.

Where is Alliance for California Traditional Arts based?

Alliance for California Traditional Arts is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Alliance for California Traditional Arts

ACTA's mission is to ensure that California's future holds California's past. ACTA promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now and into the future by providing advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and traditional artists.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 48
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2020: 100%
First-time grantees FY2020

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Itemized, FY2024: $675k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $12,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 8; FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $6.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Alliance for California Traditional Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	48	$675k	92%
FY2020	3	$205k	100%
FY2019	2	$20k	50%
FY2018	2	$20k	100%
FY2017	8	$121k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Walter and Elise Haas Fund	$52,500	1	0%
Backyard 4 Life LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Surdna Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
El Teatro de la Tierra	$41,500	2	11%
Kings Regional Traditional Folk Arts Inc	$29,000	1	39%
Dancers Group	$25,000	1	1%
Cambodian American Resource Agency	$25,000	1	n/a
Agua Sol y Sereno Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Diamano Coura West African Dance Co	$22,500	2	12%
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp	$22,500	2	0%

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All grantees of Alliance for California Traditional Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Walter and Elise Haas Fund	$52,500	1	0%
Backyard 4 Life LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Surdna Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
El Teatro de la Tierra	$41,500	2	11%
Kings Regional Traditional Folk Arts Inc	$29,000	1	39%
Dancers Group	$25,000	1	1%
Cambodian American Resource Agency	$25,000	1	n/a
Agua Sol y Sereno Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Diamano Coura West African Dance Co	$22,500	2	12%
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp	$22,500	2	0%
Dimensions Dance Theater Incorporated	$20,000	2	n/a
Danzantes Unidos de California	$20,000	1	n/a
Merced Lao Family Community Inc	$19,500	2	1%
Indigenous Community Initiatives	$12,500	1	13%
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno	$12,500	1	0%
Community Partners	$12,500	1	0%
Tataviam Land Conservancy	$12,500	1	1%
Hmong Youth and Parents United	$12,500	1	1%
Lao Community Cultural Center of Fresno	$12,500	1	n/a
Music Is Extraordinary Inc	$12,500	1	2%
East la Society of Film & Arts	$12,500	1	39%
El Sereno Community Land Trust	$12,500	1	6%
La Pea Cultural Center Inc	$12,500	1	2%
Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians	$12,500	1	n/a
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation	$12,500	1	5%
Kultivate Labs	$12,500	1	1%
Homies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY	$12,500	1	0%
Kumeyaay Community College Inc	$12,500	1	2%
Association for the Advancement of Filipino American	$12,500	1	n/a
Wintu Educational & Cultural Council of Northern California Inc	$12,500	1	n/a
Marigold Project Inc	$12,500	1	5%
Hmong Association of Long Beach Incorporated	$12,500	1	n/a
Manilatown Heritage Foundation	$12,500	1	2%
Mariachi Plaza Festival Foundation	$12,500	1	n/a
Culturas Music & Arts	$12,500	1	10%
Center for Training & Careers Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Celebration Nation Inc	$12,500	1	1%
Another Level Training Academy	$12,500	1	2%
The Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance	$12,500	1	5%
Centro Cultural Techantit	$12,500	1	n/a
Chaksam-Pa	$12,500	1	n/a
Generaciones En Accion	$12,500	1	37%
Fund for Resource Conservation	$12,500	1	n/a
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau	$12,500	1	2%
Latinos Unidos del Condado de Sonom	$12,500	1	20%
Trinity County Arts Council	$12,500	1	n/a
Chavalos de Aqui y Alla	$12,500	1	4%
International Society of Black Latinos	$12,500	1	n/a
Cubacaribe	$12,500	1	3%
Somos Familia	$12,500	1	8%
Eszterlanc Hungarian Folk Ensemble	$12,500	1	n/a
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association	$12,500	1	1%
Auco Vietnamese Cultural Center	$12,500	1	6%
Little Manila Rising	$12,000	1	n/a
Regional Organization of Oaxaca	$10,000	1	5%
Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center	$7,000	1	n/a
Modesto Cambodian Buddhist Society Inc	$7,000	1	6%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

How this is measured

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

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About Alliance for California Traditional Arts

How much does Alliance for California Traditional Arts give?: Alliance for California Traditional Arts reported 48 itemized grants totaling $675,000, out of $2,117,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Alliance for California Traditional Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Religion (23%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Alliance for California Traditional Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Walter and Elise Haas Fund ($53k), Backyard 4 Life LLC ($50k), Surdna Foundation Inc ($50k).
Does Alliance for California Traditional Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for California Traditional Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Latino Community Foundation.
Where is Alliance for California Traditional Arts based?: Alliance for California Traditional Arts is based in CA.