California · Nonprofit
CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE
CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,750 to it, the largest being ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Cakecutter Institute does
Mission
The Cakecutter Institute fosters social and economic growth within communities of color by leveraging art and culture, with a primary focus on the Compton and South Los Angeles ecosystems. Serving as the fiscal and administrative nonprofit partner for The Compton Arts Project, the organization operates as an umbrella collaborative dedicated to enhancing quality of life in Compton and its surrounding unincorporated neighborhoods through art-centered community engagement and culturally focused initiatives.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Cakecutter Institute provided comprehensive support to The Compton Arts Project, including financial management, grant writing, strategic planning, program evaluation, and fundraising. These services facilitated key initiatives such as planning for the biannual summit, organizing stakeholder meetings, and executing public art projects. Additionally, Cakecutter supported documentary and oral history projects and led arts advocacy efforts, including the establishment of a charter for the Compton Arts Commission, the development of a Cultural Arts District, and the formulation of arts policy. The organization continues to provide consultation to the City of Compton as it moves forward on key recommendations made by The Compton Arts Project. Notably, nearly 80% of all consultants engaged in these efforts are BIPOC artists and cultural practitioners.
$90,703 spentof which $179,229 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,703.
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 $96k to $87k (−9%).
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.
100% of CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rosalind McGary
CEO and President
Board chair
Joseph Duncan
Secretary and Interim Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE’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
CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE.
“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
CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE: 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 CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE?
- CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,750 to it, the largest being ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $68,750 in grants to CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE?
- ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAKECUTTER INSTITUTE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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