California · Nonprofit
Arts for LA
Arts for LA (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,651,781 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($575,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $551k
What Arts for LA does
Mission
Arts for LA leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Convenings - Arts for LA led 11 cultural convenings that welcomed 309 participants over 24 hours of engagement. We led an arts workers webinar series that served a total of 102 artists and arts workers with education, resources and networking opportunities. We hosted an annual conference that brought together 354 arts and culture leaders from across the region to network and learn about the state of the creative economy in the los angeles region.research - Arts for LA commissioned and published a report based on the cultural convenings for the 2028 olympic and paralympic games. The report summarized key findings from these sessions. We also commissioned a second study, titled, arts and music in schools: exploring prop 28 implementation and public perceptions in los angeles county which sought to understand how la county school leaders are both envisioning and witnessing the impact of prop 28 at their schools.education and leadership development - Arts for LA provided information about the creative economy and cultural policy issues to over 75,000 subscribers of our website and social media platforms.we trained 90 community members across the four tracks of our activate leadership…
$1,143,087 spent$213,014 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,143,087.
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.
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 $592k to $910k (+54%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 17% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Arts for LA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Gustavo Herrera
CEO
Board chair
Annette Johnson
chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $162k → $990k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 for LA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
Arts for LA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
25% 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 for LA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 57% · 2019 37% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% — 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
69% of Arts for LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of Arts for LA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $770k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Arts for LA has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Arts for LA
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arts for LA: 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 Arts for LA?
- Arts for LA (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,651,781 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($575,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arts for LA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,651,781 in grants to Arts for LA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts for LA?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts for LA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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