California · Nonprofit
ACTOR'S GANG INC
ACTOR'S GANG INC (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,181,791 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($1,675,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Actor's Gang Inc does
Mission
The actors' gang (tag) mission is to present new, unconventional and uncompromising plays and dynamic reinterpretaions of the classics; restore the ancient sense of the stage as a shared sacred space;introduce theater to children and helps them find their own creative voices and bring the freedom of self expression to the incarcerated
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The actors' gang prison project (tagpp) remians actively engaged in providing services accros multiple facilities, this includes 16 yards across 14 prisions, healthright360's s walden house re-entry facility behavioral health services for the youth and los padrinos juvenile hall, tagpp oversaw multiple culminating events-opportunies for participants to demonstrate their progress in front of an audiance of family, friends and invited officials, the alumni network continues its grwoth as participants who have exited the prision system reconnect with tagpp staff and alumni; last year tagpp celebrated the first time a participant was transfered off death row. In addition to maintaing and expanding on current programming, tagpp aims to continue its advance in folding program alumni into its work. Alumni tas, due to their lived experience, are extremly effectual teachers, as such, tagpp plans to continue supplementing its current ta roster with new alumni. Tagpp's full-time staff includes three alumni with a plan to hire a new alumnus full-time once the mentorship program is fully launched, hiring alumni is mutally benefical, creating job opportunities for formerly incarcerated…
$1,587,977 spent57% of program spendingThe actors gang education department (tag-ed) continued to provide three programs in schools accross los angeles county; ensemble in the classroom, intergrated arts and an after school programs, the ensemble in the classrom program was conducted with three school within the los angeles unified school district (lausd) castle heights elementary, whitney young continuation high school and hamilton high school. It was also offered to george washington elemnetary school within compton unified school (cusd) and the argo navis school, the intergrated arts program was offered to two lasusd schools- highland park continuation high school and boyle heights stem academy- as well as in multiple classes at culver city middle school within the culver city unified school district (ccusd) during the summer months, tag-ed par-ed also presented the parttners with cusd to offer arts and enrichment for over 200 elementarty school students, tag-ed also continues its free after school program offered to students of ccusd and conducted on-site at tag's theather. Three sessions were offered. Two for elementary school students and one for middle schools students. Students tag-ed also presented the…
$424,207 spent15% of program spendingThe actors gang (tag's) 2024-2025 season opened with the 17th prodution in the annual free shakespeare in the park (stip) series for multi- generational audiences, each year this production combines a shakespearean play with modern and iconimic cultural charaters , this years production, 'much ado about pooh' was an original adaptation of 'winnie the p00r" series, more than 2500 people attended the production over the course of eight proformances during the month of august. Attendees under the age of 18 constituted and estimated 65% of the audience, in septemebr, this production became the first show in the 'shakespeare-in-the schools' series as part of tag's new educational touring program, the inaugural performance was recieved enthusiastically by 100 children at george washington elementary school in compton unifed school district. The season continued with a production of "methusalem" continues tag's celebration of theatrical classices that are a part of tag history, 'methusalem an early 20th century play by ivan goll, was first produced by tag in 1985. Mr. Hinkley appeared in the original cast and returned to tagto dirt this production after many years acting at the oregon…
$797,720 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,809,904.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $3.1M (+118%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 25% · 2021 35% · 2022 65% · 2023 48% · 2024 51% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ACTOR'S GANG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Gina Belafonte
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $612k → $1.1M.
7 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACTOR'S GANG INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTOR'S GANG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTOR'S GANG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 39% · 2019 50% · 2020 71% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of ACTOR'S GANG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACTOR'S GANG INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTOR'S GANG INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ACTOR'S GANG INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACTOR'S GANG INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTOR'S GANG INC?
- ACTOR'S GANG INC (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,181,791 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($1,675,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTOR'S GANG INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $7,181,791 in grants to ACTOR'S GANG INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTOR'S GANG INC?
- THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTOR'S GANG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing