California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA ART CLUB
CALIFORNIA ART CLUB (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,019 to it, the largest being ADAMS FUND ($262,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $961k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $670k
- Net assets
- $540k
What California Art Club does
Mission
The California Art Club's primary purposes are to promote the fine arts in the fields of painting, drawing, and sculpture, referred to as traditional and representational art, with a special emphasis placed on the academic traditions and craftsmanship established by the club's
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Each year, the club presents fine art exhibitions at locations throughout the state, giving members and students the opportunity to have their work juried/judged and exhibited for fellow members, artcollectors and scholars, and the general public to view, learn from and enjoy.
$131,248 spent$158,746 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe club publishes an award-winning quarterly newsletter, a 40-page publication designed to inform and educate club members and the general public about both historical and current issues involving traditional fine art. The newsletter is distributed to individuals as well as to alarge number of museums, schools, art organizations and others throughout the country, with a total circulation of approximately 4,500, three times per year
$32,360 spent6% of program spendingThe club offers myriad educational programs, for both artists and patrons as well as students, scholars, children and the public. Programs include paint and sculpt-outs, lectures, painting and sculpting demonstrations, critique sessions, mentoring, children's art contests, art retreats, museum tours, master artist workshops, career development, panel discussions and family days to encourage art learning activities desiged for children, adolescents, parents and grandparents. In addition, the club offers special programming for collector's circle members that focuses on education and relationships with leading artists and fellow collectors, and offers members the opportunity to learn about art and meet leading artists while networking with other business leaders.
$36,644 spent$123,942 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$380,897 spent66% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $581,149.
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 $942k to $826k (−12%).
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 8% · 2021 1% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of CALIFORNIA ART CLUB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Elaine Adams
Executive director
Board chair
Donald Baker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $45k → $107k.
2 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CALIFORNIA ART CLUB’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
CALIFORNIA ART CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 58% · 2019 31% · 2020 60% · 2021 75% · 2022 46% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of CALIFORNIA ART CLUB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
81% of CALIFORNIA ART CLUB's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CALIFORNIA ART CLUB's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA ART CLUB
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 CALIFORNIA ART CLUB: 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 CALIFORNIA ART CLUB?
- CALIFORNIA ART CLUB (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,019 to it, the largest being ADAMS FUND ($262,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA ART CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $670,019 in grants to CALIFORNIA ART CLUB, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ART CLUB?
- ADAMS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $262,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ART CLUB 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 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing