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ART ACTIVE INC

ART ACTIVE INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,402 to it, the largest being CLARA ELIZABETH JACKSON CARTER FOUNDATION ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$134k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$91k
Net assets
$-84190
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Art Active Inc does

Mission

Art Active Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was created in 2014 in los angeles, california for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3), of the internal revenue code, of the united states of america, of 1986, for the purpose of educating elementary and secondary school age inner city children and seniors through the application of artistic expression with mathematical, scientific and social studies, calculated to instill academic and social discipline, knowledge, respect and problem solving skills.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Art active offerred and conducted multiple art classes in ceramic design, coding, floural design, mindful training and collaging. Conducted various community outreach programs providing art programs for children with autism, for neigbourhood council annual community festival and for "handwraps in the park" community festival. Also, art active provided art programs for two-day central avenue jazz festival. Purchased and distributed toys to students and their families who participated in our art programs. Offerred and tought a weekly community class to children and adults in the art of mindfulness.provided art programming for the 4th of july festival at the sports arena sponsored by the city council district 9.

    $138,237 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,237.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets -139 ($-6861)2018 Revenue 160 ($141k) Expenses 134 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2019 Revenue 165 ($145k) Expenses 188 ($182k) Net assets -648 ($-32006)2020 Revenue 117 ($103k) Expenses 76 ($74k) Net assets -62 ($-3065)2021 Revenue 175 ($154k) Expenses 195 ($189k) Net assets -764 ($-37724)2022 Revenue 268 ($236k) Expenses 224 ($216k) Net assets -365 ($-18037)2023 Revenue 304 ($268k) Expenses 280 ($271k) Net assets -422 ($-20817)2024 Revenue 153 ($134k) Expenses 205 ($198k) Net assets -1706 ($-84190)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (205)Net assets (-1706)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 2019 to 2020, from $15k to $79k (+424%).

$4k
$16k
$15k
$79k
$44k
$44k
$31k
$10k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ART ACTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$12k
’18
−$37k
’19
$29k
’20
−$35k
’21
$20k
’22
−$3k
’23
−$63k
’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.

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Listed33333333
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0100000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $33.

2 of 6 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 ART ACTIVE 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

ART ACTIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 ART ACTIVE INC.

35%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 99% · 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

ART ACTIVE INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
MD

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

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’18
’20
’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ART ACTIVE INC's revenue grew 53% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 9%Fundraising 22%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART ACTIVE INC: 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 ART ACTIVE INC?
ART ACTIVE INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,402 to it, the largest being CLARA ELIZABETH JACKSON CARTER FOUNDATION ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ART ACTIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $91,402 in grants to ART ACTIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ART ACTIVE INC?
CLARA ELIZABETH JACKSON CARTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ART ACTIVE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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