California · Nonprofit
BARNSDALL ARTS
BARNSDALL ARTS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $555k
What Barnsdall Arts does
Mission
Our mission is to provide quality art education and exhibitions that nurture creativity, acquisition of artistic skills, and aesthetic appreciation of art. Our outstanding programs build communtiy through access, engagement, excellence and equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The artist in residence program provides quality art eucation programs to schools, libraries, museums, parks, community centers, social service agencies and festivals for preschool to seniors.
$73,254 spent100% of program spendingCotsen master residency is an endowed program conducted every 2 to 3 years with a celebrated artist.
Project silver lining is a holistic, multi-disciplinary project incorporating yoga, mindfulness training, film, and visual arts. The program is structured to work with at-risk youth and introduce them to the arts as effective means to access their own voices, to transform their attitudes and to envision their future. Personal development, trust, respect, and social responsibility are at the core of this project.
Party is a program that provides children art workshops at birthday parties.
Barnsdall Arts sundays are free family art workshops conducted weekly throughout the year at barsdall art park. Each workshop is centered on global culture. All materials are provided.
Exhibitions are an integral part of our mission to celebrate art in our community. We feature our unique UNESCO International Collection of Child Art, as well as the work produced in our classes and workshops, in numerous exhibits throughout the year. Many of our programs, like LAs BEST and Project Ragan, culminate in on-site displays. The Main Concourse at Kaiser-Sunset Hospital is our primary exhibition site. We install two exhibits annually. Since the building opened in 2009, hundreds of thousands of people have viewed our installations there. We also feature student work at our studio during the semi-annual Brewery Art Walks. In the past our ICAC and student work have been displayed at the Bridge Gallery in LA City Hall, the Pasadena Civic Center, and Childrens Hospital as well as in other corporate and civic institutions.
Festival and Special Events Program offers children and family art workshops community-wide. We have participated at: Brewery Art Walk, Hollywood Arts Council Festival of Children, Oaks Neighborhood Picnic, Silverlake Jewish Community Center Fair, Natural History Museum,USC pacific Asian Museum and various street fairs.
Bookmark offers art workshops at libraries throughout los angeles county.
House calls offer private individual or group lessons in your residence: elementary,middle school, high school, adults. The curriculum will be created to meet your needs.
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,254.
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 2023 to 2024, from $525k to $568k (+8%).
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 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of BARNSDALL ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $25k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 BARNSDALL ARTS’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
BARNSDALL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 BARNSDALL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
66% of BARNSDALL ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $92k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BARNSDALL ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BARNSDALL ARTS
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARNSDALL ARTS: 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 BARNSDALL ARTS?
- BARNSDALL ARTS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARNSDALL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $266,526 in grants to BARNSDALL ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARNSDALL ARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARNSDALL ARTS 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 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