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ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP

ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,302 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($53,849). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$431k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$303k
Net assets
$203k
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Arts Bridging the Gap does

Mission

To provide arts education to youth in under resourced communities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Arts + Wellness is a long-term multi-disciplinary arts program that supports young people in developing their wellness and mindfulness through empathy building, trauma healing, restorative justice, creative expression, real-world and project-based learning, and civic leadership. The young artists help select the art disciplines and issues on which to focus through public displays of art and hands-on experiences.

    $93,441 spentof which $111,440 as grants$100,596 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $45,143 spent$23,800 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $64,139 spent$48,840 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,723.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2020 Revenue 125 ($123k) Expenses 84 ($89k) Net assets 290 ($52k)2021 Revenue 59 ($58k) Expenses 91 ($97k) Net assets 71 ($13k)2022 Revenue 357 ($352k) Expenses 312 ($333k) Net assets 174 ($31k)2023 Revenue 413 ($406k) Expenses 239 ($255k) Net assets 1022 ($183k)2024 Revenue 438 ($431k) Expenses 386 ($411k) Net assets 1134 ($203k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (438)Expenses (386)Net assets (1134)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 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $183k (+607%).

$18k
$52k
$13k
$26k
$183k
$208k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 79% · 2023 64% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP’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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’19
$34k
’20
−$39k
’21
$19k
’22
$152k
’23
$20k
’24
6.1
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

Kyle Denman

Executive director

Board chair

Rufus Chambers

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed11215
Joined··+3
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $36k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP’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

ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

52% 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 ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP.

18%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 90% · 2023 28% — 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

33% of ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

90% of ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA
DC
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

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

Government funding ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
23
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$40k

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 ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP

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

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 10%Fundraising 17%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP?
ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,302 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($53,849). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $303,302 in grants to ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $53,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 18 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