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ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC

ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,050 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($67,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$67k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$252k
Net assets
$367k
8/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Arts Mentorship Program Inc does

Mission

To provide creative guidance, mentorship, and financial support to young and emerging performing artists in the santa barbara area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Arts mentorship program creates opportunities for growth, and access to a state of the art studio and performance space through our scholarship programs, our all access no limits programs, and our rent subsidy program. It is our mission to support the education & training of dance and allow the healing art of dance to be accessible to all.

    $10,529 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,529.

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 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 100 ($640k)2018 Revenue 101 ($118k) Expenses 96 ($131k) Net assets 98 ($627k)2019 Revenue 130 ($150k) Expenses 102 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($638k)2020 Revenue 194 ($225k) Expenses 115 ($156k) Net assets 110 ($707k)2021 Revenue 107 ($124k) Expenses 124 ($169k) Net assets 104 ($664k)2022 Revenue 134 ($155k) Expenses 166 ($226k) Net assets 90 ($573k)2023 Revenue 154 ($179k) Expenses 189 ($257k) Net assets 77 ($494k)2024 Revenue 71 ($83k) Expenses 101 ($137k) Net assets 62 ($397k)2025 Revenue 58 ($67k) Expenses 72 ($98k) Net assets 57 ($367k)
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Revenue (58)Expenses (72)Net assets (57)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 $777k to $885k (+14%).

$801k
$774k
$777k
$885k
$840k
$886k
$831k
$725k
$685k
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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.

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2018
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2020
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2019 1% · 2022 22% · 2023 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
−$13k
’18
$11k
’19
$69k
’20
−$45k
’21
−$71k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$55k
’24
−$30k
’25
14
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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Listed89991011111110
Joined·+1+0+6+6+2+0+0+7
No longer listed·00651008
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $64k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 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

ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

38% 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 MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC.

27%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 83% · 2020 53% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 31% — 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

50% of ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

68% of ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from California funders.

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CO

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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

ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

11% of spending goes to programs.

Program 11%Management 88%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 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 ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC?
ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,050 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($67,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $252,050 in grants to ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 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.

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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 16 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