California · Nonprofit
ALLIES IN ARTS
ALLIES IN ARTS (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,262 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($255,020). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $598k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $899k
- Net assets
- $584k
What Allies in Arts does
Mission
Our mission is to support artists who are women, bipoc, and lgbtqqia2s - all of whom are underrepresented individuals in creative industries.artists from our communities face barriers as a direct result of race, gender, sex, and sexual orientation. We seek to break down those barriers by providing free educational courses to emerging artists, awarding grants, curating exhibitions and screenings, and connecting artists with the decision-makers who can hire them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Transanta program - sent gifts to over 5,000 queer youth in need whose families cannot afford to give them gifts.
$224,975 spentof which $13,866 as grants39% of program spendingChosen kin program - created and hosted a parent and child art program to relieve stress, improve bonding, and work through trauma.
$95,250 spentof which $95,250 as grants16% of program spendingChase strangio fiscal sponsorship - develops and distributes creative content designed to counter harmful transphobic narratives and promote positive representation of transgender individuals in public spaces.
$64,500 spentof which $64,500 as grants11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$197,404 spentof which $73,315 as grants34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,129.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $218k to $666k (+205%).
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: 2021 2% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ALLIES IN ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $29k → $192k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 ALLIES IN ARTS’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
ALLIES IN ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
88% 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 ALLIES IN ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 92% · 2022 89% · 2023 26% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of ALLIES IN ARTS'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 $272k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $628k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ALLIES IN ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIES IN ARTS
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIES IN ARTS: 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 ALLIES IN ARTS?
- ALLIES IN ARTS (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,262 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($255,020). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIES IN ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $899,262 in grants to ALLIES IN ARTS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIES IN ARTS?
- PLEDGELING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $255,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIES IN ARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 26 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