California · Nonprofit
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $458 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($258). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $458
- Net assets
- $0
What African American Museum of Beginnings does
Mission
Education of underserved community. Museum of african artifacts and information
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Classes in history field trips chess training 45 attendees
$2,500 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,500.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $64 → $49.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
56% 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 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
56% of AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $458 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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In California
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS?
- AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $458 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($258). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $458 in grants to AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEGINNINGS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing