California · Nonprofit
BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,634,079 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,646,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Bay Area Cultural Connections does
Mission
The Organization is to serve humanity as a way of serving God, BayCC brings communities together through education, dialogue, and common good projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Organization provided various education support services including scholarship, mentorship and educational development programs.
$501,590 spentof which $376,596 as grants32% of program spendingDuring the year, a series of youth development programs were organized, including field trips, mentorship, health and social development initiatives, and enrichment support activities.
$299,115 spent$33,822 earned by the program19% of program spendingOrganized cultural days and food festivals; supported families in need during special celebrations/occasions.
$296,753 spentof which $1,724 as grants$40,307 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther programs/accomplishments during the year included winter and summer retreat conferences and camps for all ages; and weekend school activities that were carried out during 8 months of school season once per week.
$478,200 spent$299,263 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,575,658.
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 $1.2M to $2.0M (+67%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Yusuf Ozgen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $71k → $407k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS’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
BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 48% · 2019 57% · 2020 52% · 2021 47% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% — 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
78% of BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: 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 BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS?
- BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,634,079 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,646,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,634,079 in grants to BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,646,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY AREA CULTURAL CONNECTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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