California · Nonprofit
BD PERFORMING ARTS
BD PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,257 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($117,441). 4 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
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Bd Performing Arts does
Mission
Bd Performing Arts permanently enriches the lives of young people through a commitment to youth development and performance excellence, while providing enjoyment for our local community and audiences worldwide.music and the performing arts connect youth with their culture through a common language crossing generational, social, and racial barriers. The activities that a young person pursues influences the type of person he or she becomes. The experience that comes with participation in a performing arts organization builds discipline, character, pride, and self-confidence at a crucial age and forms the springboard to even greater achievements in adulthood.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The blue devils a corpsthe most decorated corps in the history of drum corps international, the blue devils have finished in the top five for over 40 years and have won the drum corps international world championship title more than any other performing group. The music performance group consists of approximately 150 students ages 17-21. They produce an original show at the beginning of the year, which they rehearse for about five months. They then perform their show primarily in competitive venues across the united states during the summer months. The students perform as musicians or color guard participants.
$3,370,830 spentof which $3,500 as grants$1,141,911 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe blue devils b corps the blue devils b corps is an augmentation to the participants' school music and performing arts experience. The music performance group consists of approximately 150 students ages 14-19. They produce an original show at the beginning of the year, which they rehearse for about five months. They then perform their show primarily in competitive venues across the united states during the summer months. The students perform as musicians or color guard participants.
$626,075 spent$395,271 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe blue devils c corpsthe blue devils c corps is an augmentation to the participants' school music and performing arts experience. The music performance group consists of approximately 150 students ages 14-19. They produce an original show at the beginning of the year, which they rehearse for about five months. They then perform their show primarily in competitive venues across the united states during the summer months. The students perform as musicians or color guard participants.
$254,070 spent$70,134 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services including winterguard, diablo wind symphony, rcc drumline, alumni, dci west, and education.
$534,633 spentof which $3,500 as grants$4,927,269 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,785,608.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $7.5M (+204%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of BD PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $26k.
8 of 10 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 BD PERFORMING 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
BD PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 BD PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 69% · 2022 46% · 2023 59% — 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
20% of BD PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 BD PERFORMING 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BD PERFORMING ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BD PERFORMING 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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BD PERFORMING 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 BD PERFORMING ARTS?
- BD PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,257 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($117,441). 4 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 BD PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $325,257 in grants to BD PERFORMING ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BD PERFORMING ARTS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $117,441 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BD PERFORMING 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.
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 10 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