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Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach

The arts council for long beach cultivates the physical, social and economic characteristics of long beach neighborhoods by nurturing and enlivening the arts.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$217k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.2MHealth$46kYouth Development$46k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $2,002,174, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,179,060 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $176,886 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
$108,476
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART$216,985
MUSICAL THEATER WEST$216,952
LONG BEACH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$216,952
LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$216,952
UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY$109,276
AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER$108,476
MUSICA ANGELICA$108,476
SOUTH COAST CHORALE INC$108,476
LONG BEACH OPERA$108,476
INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE$108,476
CENTRO CHA$108,476
LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE$108,476
CAMERATA SINGERS OF LONG BEACH$108,476
JAZZ ANGELS$23,623
KLEEFIELD CONTEMPORARY$22,908
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $930k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRO CHA: $108k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITIES ACTION COMMITTEE: $25k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITIES ACTION COMMITTEE: $21k → 14%COMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE: $21k → 14%CENTRO CHA: $39k → 14%CARE CLOSET LBC: $25k → 14%CARE CLOSET LBC: $21k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $21k → 14%KOREAN RESOURSE CENTER INC: $21k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $109k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICE FOR DISABLED INC: $87k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $65k → 14%CALIFORNIA FAMILIES IN FOCUS: $45k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICE FOR DISABLED INC: $28k → 14%Arts and Services for the Disabled: $23k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICE FOR DISABLED INC: $22k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $21k → 14%Arts and Services for the Disabled: $18k → 14%Arts and Services for the Disabled: $17k → 14%Arts and Services for the Disabled: $17k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER LONG BCH: $34k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC: $29k → 14%UP & COMING ACTORS: $7k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC: $23k → 14%United Cambodia Community: $5k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $25k → 14%United Cambodia Community: $5k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $21k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 56 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
21

Total granted

$9.9M
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-2%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
  • MT
    MUSICAL THEATRE WEST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • LB
    Long Beach Symphony Association
    5× · 2021–2025 · $952k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • DA
    DSTL ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue -57%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    California Families in Focus
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -96%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center

LB Cultural Arts Center provides a creative epicenter through exhibition space events and promotion to support artists in the following mediums: visual arts music video and still photography film dance prose and poetry and arts education.

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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3
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre

To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
5
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
6
Artronika

ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…

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7
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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8
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…

Arts & Culture
9
The Honarkar Foundation
Public Benefit
10
Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach

To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
12
Artes Vocales Inc

Artes Vocales' mission is to enrich the musical tapestry of Los Angeles through its highly innovative choral programming and partnerships with LA-based musicians. Artes Vocales provides vocalists with precision-based vocal pedagogy in bel…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Symphony Association; the most unlike its peers is Robert Gumbiner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
41/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $1,031,173 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $1,019,779 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEATRE WESTLong Beach Symphony Association: $952,213 · Arts & CultureLong Beach Symphony AssociationLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $952,212 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONLONG BEACH OPERA: $553,789 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH OPERAINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE: $550,228 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRECamerata Singers of Long Beach: $527,753 · Arts & CultureCamerata Singers of Long BeachLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $481,899 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INCMUSICA ANGELICA: $481,571 · Arts & CultureMUSICA ANGELICAAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF LONG BEACH: $337,689 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $671,352 · Arts & Culture+22 moreARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK: $264,635 · Human ServicesARTS AND S…UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $205,510 · Human ServicesUNITED CAM…CENTRO CHA INC: $147,410 · Human ServicesCENTRO CHA…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $55,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS…CARE CLOSET LBC: $46,000 · Human ServicesELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE: $46,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE: $46,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $46,000 · Human ServicesCalifornia Families in Focus: $45,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $34,000 · Human Services+2 more: $28,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH COAST CHORALE INC: $336,423 · OtherSOUTH COAS…HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH: $103,767 · OtherHISTORICAL…Long Beach Symphony: $80,298 · OtherLong Beach…REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE OF LOS ANGELES: $46,000 · OtherMA SERIES ARTS: $46,000 · OtherANGEL'S GATE CULTURAL CENTER: $37,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $84,086 · OtherSOCIAL AND…CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $46,000 · Other+16 more: $187,544 · Other+16 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $211,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $46,500 · Community ImprovementLONG BEACH FORWARD INC: $46,250 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE CLASS COLLECTIVE: $46,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $106,376 · EducationOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach: $77,500 · EducationNO EASY PROPS INC: $46,000 · EducationKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentColor Compton Inc: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEOC: $46,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $46,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$7,559,658Human Services$963,555Other$967,118Community Improvement$349,750Education$229,876Youth Development$138,000Philanthropy$92,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $1,031,173 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $1,019,779 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetLong Beach Symphony Association: $952,213 over 5y, 10% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $952,212 over 5y, 10% of budgetLONG BEACH OPERA: $553,789 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE: $550,228 over 9y, 11% of budgetCamerata Singers of Long Beach: $527,753 over 6y, 29% of budgetLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $481,899 over 6y, 17% of budgetMUSICA ANGELICA: $481,571 over 6y, 23% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF LONG BEACH: $337,689 over 5y, 68% of budgetSOUTH COAST CHORALE INC: $336,423 over 4y, 55% of budgetARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK: $264,635 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $211,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $205,510 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetCENTRO CHA INC: $147,410 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Art Theatre of Long Beach: $111,115 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $106,376 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH: $103,767 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $84,086 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach: $77,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoiter Galleries Inc: $53,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetJewel Box Childrens Theater Company: $52,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $46,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH FORWARD INC: $46,250 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC: $46,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetONEOC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE CLASS COLLECTIVE: $46,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $46,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCARE CLOSET LBC: $46,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetColor Compton Inc: $46,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetDSTL ARTS: $46,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetArts District San Pedro Waterfront: $46,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetGRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE: $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH: $46,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLA River Public Art Project: $46,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE: $46,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNO EASY PROPS INC: $46,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Families in Focus: $45,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJazz Angel Inc: $39,623 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBODIA TOWN INC: $33,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY: $26,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Earl B & Loraine H Mi…Long Beach Community …The Rudolph J & Daphn…California Community …Bess J Hodges Foundat…Farmers & Merchants B…The RuMBa Foundation …Elbridge Stuart Found…The Josephine S Gumbi…The Ralph M Parsons F…Park Bixby Tower IncKeesal Young & Logan …
Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA51× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · California Community Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Park Bixby Tower Inc · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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