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ARTogether

ARTogether (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,628,749 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($561,263). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$939k
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$173k
22/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What ARTogether does

Mission

ARTogether's mission is to provide art programs that foster compassionate communities where refugees and immigrants can flourish.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fiscal Sponsorships: ARTogether works with arts and other nonprofit organizations and groups to provide fiscal sponsorships and other auxiliary support for programs and projects that fall within ARTogether's mission and values.

    $242,689 spentof which $225,278 as grants
    42% of program spending
  2. Community Art Programs: ARTogether offers community art workshops and events, providing welcoming, creative spaces for refugees, immigrants, artists, and allies to meet, create, and build lasting connections with others in the community. Community art events include workshops in crafts, watercoloring, quilt-making, after-school art classes, youth art camps, and other artist-led activities.

    $235,361 spent$114,927 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  3. Artist Support Programs: ARTogether offers professional and financial support to refugee and immigrant artists, helping them to establish reputations in the Bay Area and to connect with their artistic community. Wraparound and other support for artists includes professional development, grant-writing support, artist mentorship, financial assistance, grants for art projects, and partnerships on public art projects to help artists develop, fund, and exhibit their art.

    $95,923 spent$4,500 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $573,973.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($11k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2019 Revenue 174 ($76k) Expenses 503 ($54k) Net assets 167 ($55k)2020 Revenue 698 ($305k) Expenses 2201 ($235k) Net assets 323 ($107k)2021 Revenue 1950 ($852k) Expenses 6820 ($729k) Net assets 696 ($231k)2022 Revenue 2669 ($1.2M) Expenses 10544 ($1.1M) Net assets 823 ($273k)2023 Revenue 1935 ($846k) Expenses 6124 ($654k) Net assets 1401 ($464k)2024 Revenue 2693 ($1.2M) Expenses 13829 ($1.5M) Net assets 495 ($164k)2025 Revenue 2149 ($939k) Expenses 9174 ($980k) Net assets 522 ($173k)
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Revenue (2149)Expenses (9174)Net assets (522)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 $467k to $164k (−65%).

$33k
$55k
$107k
$257k
$273k
$467k
$164k
$223k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 4% · 2022 26% · 2023 32% · 2024 19% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of ARTogether’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’18
$22k
’19
$70k
’20
$124k
’21
$40k
’22
$192k
’23
−$300k
’24
−$41k
’25
2.3
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.

Chief executive

Leva Zand

Exec Director

Board chair

Anita Fong

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed587799
Joined·+4+1+0+5+0
No longer listed·12030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $2k → $387k.

15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ARTogether’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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

ARTogether has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

69% 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 ARTogether.

21%
largest funder
40%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 34% · 2020 60% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 14% — 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

27% of ARTogether's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

61% of ARTogether's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

ARTogether has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)55% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ARTogether receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.

Federal$55k
grants $55kcontracts $0
21
22
26
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$55k

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 ARTogether

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 33%Fundraising 8%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

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 ARTogether: 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 ARTogether?
ARTogether (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,628,749 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($561,263). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTogether have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,628,749 in grants to ARTogether, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTogether?
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $561,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTogether 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 55 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