California · Nonprofit
BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC
BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,581,547 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,364,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Big Arts Organization Inc does
Mission
To advance public appreciation of the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big arts organization continued to operate and tour "titanic's end and "mothership", two large scale mobile art pieces. Significant ongoing improvements to both pieces were made throughout the year.community development continues to be a pillar of big arts organization. Much of the work on the art pieces is volunteer based to support community-driven learning, art and building education. We also held our annual summer camp where attendees worked together to generate new ideas for future art, maintain our existing titanic's end and mothership art pieces, and learn technical, performance, and production skills as we continue to foster emerging creators. A large part of this year's focus has been building out the big arts studio/warehouse where they are able to bring the large scale art projects to life, maintain and store our past projects. Big arts org hosts regular build days for volunteers to participate in fabrication, lighting, welding, printing. Big arts is committed to educational programming for our volunteers and maintaining a safe space to support and expand access to the arts.
$1,550,560 spent$128,832 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,550,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $1.7M to $2.7M (+61%).
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.
88% of BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC.
“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
99% of BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M 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
BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC's revenue fell 31% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION 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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION 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 BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC?
- BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,581,547 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,364,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,581,547 in grants to BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,364,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG ARTS ORGANIZATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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