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Alisal Community Arts Network Inc

Alisal Community Arts Network Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,200 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$297k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Alisal Community Arts Network Inc does

Mission

Transform the lives of East Salinas, California youth by cultivating positive character traits through team-oriented performing arts ensembles.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In the 2023-2024 Year Alisal Community Arts network continued its long standing partnership with the Alisal Union School district and successfully proposed and implemented new programming through the District's Expanded Learning Opportunities Programs (ELOP) funding. The school district contracted ACAN to expand its year-round competing teams from drumline (weekends only), colorguard (weekends only), and mariachi to include guitar ensemble, marimba ensemble, and cheer team - all teams meeting weekly after school and on weekends. The Alisal district additionally contracted ACAN to provide introductory performing arts classes on a rotational basis after school and on Wednesdays. ACAN instructors were able to work additional hours and continue their professional development through teaching these courses. ACAN continued its partnership with CHISPA/Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association to offer all age programs to students in the community on select weeknights. ACAN provided fiscal sponsorship to a fledgling organization, Sparta Indoor Percussion, an independent drumline group that successfully competed in the Northern California Percussion Alliance (NCPA)…

    $1,302,673 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,302,673.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($441k) Expenses 100 ($450k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2024 Revenue 374 ($1.6M) Expenses 315 ($1.4M) Net assets 450 ($297k)
20232024
Revenue (374)Expenses (315)Net assets (450)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $67k to $297k (+345%).

$67k
$297k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Alisal Community Arts Network Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’23
$231k
’24
0.6
months of
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.

20232024
Listed44
Joined·+2
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $8k.

From the IRS filings of Alisal Community Arts Network Inc’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

Alisal Community Arts Network Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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

100% of Alisal Community Arts Network Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alisal Community Arts Network Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)274% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alisal Community Arts Network Inc?
Alisal Community Arts Network Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,200 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alisal Community Arts Network Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,200 in grants to Alisal Community Arts Network Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Alisal Community Arts Network Inc?
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alisal Community Arts Network 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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