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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$6.0MHuman Services$723kCommunity Improvement$350kEducation$193kYouth Development$138kPhilanthropy$92kEnvironment$84kHealth$46kOther$696k
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 54 grants below total $2,650,148 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,904,729 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $254,581 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

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $869k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG BEACH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$212,472
MUSICAL THEATER WEST$212,472
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART$212,472
LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$212,472
CAMERATA SINGERS OF LONG BEACH$130,288
MUSICA ANGELICA$105,288
LONG BEACH OPERA$105,288
SOUTH COAST CHORALE INC$105,288
LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE$105,288
INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE$105,288
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$102,000
UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY$64,934
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$55,086
CENTRO CHA$38,934
AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER$38,934
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 (FY17–24, $689k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%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%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%United Cambodia Community: $5k → 14%United Cambodia Community: $5k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $25k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $21k → 14%CARE CLOSET LBC: $25k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $21k → 14%CARE CLOSET LBC: $21k → 14%KOREAN RESOURSE CENTER INC: $21k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 54 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
15

Total granted

$7.9M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-2%

Still filing today

89%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

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

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

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

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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $814k · revenue +58%
  • MT
    MUSICAL THEATRE WEST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $803k · revenue +21%
  • LB
    Long Beach Symphony Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $735k · revenue +162%

Funded once

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

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
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
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
4
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
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…

—
7
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
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
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
10
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
11
The Honarkar Foundation
Public Benefit
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Symphony Association and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%20%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,738

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

65 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. 65 of the 79 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART — $814,188 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTMUSICAL THEATRE WEST — $802,827 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEATRE WESTLong Beach Symphony Association — $735,261 · Arts & CultureLong Beach Symphony AssociationLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $735,260 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONLONG BEACH OPERA — $445,313 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH OPERAINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE — $441,752 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRECamerata Singers of Long Beach — $419,277 · Arts & CultureCamerata Singers of Long BeachLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC — $373,423 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INCMUSICA ANGELICA — $373,095 · Arts & CultureMUSICA ANGELICAAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF LONG BEACH — $229,213 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $605,897 · Arts & Culture+22 moreARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK — $241,817 · Human ServicesARTS AND …UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC — $96,234 · Human ServicesUNITED CA…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH — $55,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…ELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE — $46,000 · Human ServicesELEVATE H…CARE CLOSET LBC — $46,000 · Human ServicesCARE CLOS…COMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE — $46,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE — $46,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LAB…California Families in Focus — $45,000 · Human ServicesCaliforni…CENTRO CHA INC — $38,934 · Human ServicesCENTRO CH…TIDES CENTER — $34,000 · Human Services+2 more — $28,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH COAST CHORALE INC — $227,947 · OtherSOUTH COAST…HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH — $80,949 · OtherHISTORICAL …Long Beach Symphony — $80,298 · OtherLong Beach …MA SERIES ARTS — $46,000 · OtherMA SERIES A…REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE OF LOS ANGELES — $46,000 · OtherREPERTORY D…ANGEL'S GATE CULTURAL CENTER — $37,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $84,086 · OtherSOCIAL AND …CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION — $46,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S …+15 more — $178,294 · Other+15 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 — $76,968 · EducationOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach — $70,000 · EducationNO EASY PROPS INC — $46,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentColor Compton Inc — $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEOC — $46,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $46,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$5,975,506Human Services$722,985Other$826,574Community Improvement$349,750Education$192,968Youth Development$138,000Philanthropy$92,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART — $814,188 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE WEST — $802,827 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetLong Beach Symphony Association — $735,261 over 4y, 10% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $735,260 over 4y, 10% of budgetLONG BEACH OPERA — $445,313 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE — $441,752 over 8y, 11% of budgetCamerata Singers of Long Beach — $419,277 over 5y, 29% of budgetLONG BEACH COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC — $373,423 over 5y, 17% of budgetMUSICA ANGELICA — $373,095 over 5y, 23% of budgetARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK — $241,817 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF LONG BEACH — $229,213 over 4y, 68% of budgetSOUTH COAST CHORALE INC — $227,947 over 3y, 55% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $211,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC — $96,234 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetThe Art Theatre of Long Beach — $88,297 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $84,086 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH — $80,949 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $76,968 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach — $70,000 over 4y, 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 budgetONEOC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $46,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNO EASY PROPS INC — $46,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE — $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE CLASS COLLECTIVE — $46,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLA River Public Art Project — $46,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCARE CLOSET LBC — $46,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDSTL ARTS — $46,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $46,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC — $46,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LITERATURE INITIATIVE — $46,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE — $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColor Compton Inc — $46,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetArts District San Pedro Waterfront — $46,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCalifornia Families in Focus — $45,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCENTRO CHA INC — $38,934 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY — $26,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCAMBODIA TOWN INC — $24,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES — $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKorean Resource Center Inc — $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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

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 Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach 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%5%19%42%75%your 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

    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.

    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 79 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.

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