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Riverside Arts Council

The promotion of the arts and cultural life in the city and county of Riverside, California.

$295k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $252,743, the rows itemized in this filing. The $295,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,357 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 · FY2017

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$20,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$455k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM$59,500
RIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC$50,000
REGENTS OF THE UC-RIVERSIDE$26,000
PERFORMANCE RIVERSIDE$21,500
MARCH FIELD AIR MUSEUM$20,750
RIVERSIDE DICKENS FESTIVAL$20,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERS$18,000
INLANDIA INSTITUTE$17,500
BALLET FOLKLORIO DE RIVERSIDE$12,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY ARTS$7,493
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM: $60k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $18k → 11%INLANDIA INSTITUTE: $18k → 11%MARCH FIELD AIR MUSEUM: $21k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY ARTS: $7k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UC-RIVERSIDE: $26k → 11%PERFORMANCE RIVERSIDE: $22k → 11%BALLET FOLKLORIO DE RIVERSIDE: $12k → 11%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 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
River Valley Arts Collective Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Riverside Art Center

To encourage the learning and enjoyment of fine art in the community by the use of art classes, demonstrations, seminars, exhibits, and lectures to the community regarding various types of fine art.

Arts & Culture
3
Rialto Theater

Education in the performing and visual arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
5
Riverstage Community Theatre

To create community theatre productions

Arts & Culture
6
The Irvine Museum
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7
Riverside Arts Council

The promotion of the arts and cultural life in the city and county of Riverside, California.

Arts & Culture
8
Rio Grande Trails and Tales
Education
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
Unidos for La Causa Inc

The organization partnered with the riverside art museum to stage events at the cheech marin center for chicano art & culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Riverside Childrens Theatre

The Riverside Childrens Theatre is a Drama School for the youth and conduct theatrical performances during the year for the community.

Arts & Culture
12
Riverton Free Library Association
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverside Community Arts Association; the most unlike its peers is March Field Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM: $59,500 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE ART MUSEUMRIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INCMARCH FIELD MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,750 · Arts & CultureMARCH FIELD MUSEUM FOUNDATIONRIVERSIDE DICKENS FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE DICKENS FESTIVAL INCRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $18,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERSINLANDIA INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureINLANDIA INSTITUTE INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $26,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF C…RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $21,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DI…Ballet Folklorico De Riverside: $12,000 · OtherBallet Folklorico De RiversideRiverside Community Arts Association: $7,493 · OtherRiverside Community Arts Assoc…
Arts & Culture$185,750Other$66,993

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM: $59,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $18,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINLANDIA INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetBallet Folklorico De Riverside: $12,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

Inland Empire Communi…E Rhodes and Leona B …The James Irvine Foun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Riverside Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riverside Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 10 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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