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CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS

CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being George J and Theresa L Cotsirilos Merced Foundation ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$87k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$110k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Calliope East Bay Music & Arts does

Mission

Building community and advancing social justice through the arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Calliope offered 12 concerts in 2025; these included a free organ benefit concert a community sing-along and 11 monthly concerts with paid performing artists. Our concerts were offered both in-person and via live-stream. 857 concert patrons attended in-person and 70 attended via live-stream. In addition recordings of the livestreams were viewed 547 times by ticket-holders and the free concert clips posted on youtube were watched 739 times. We paid 33 musicians to perform in the concert series.

    $55,142 spent
    96% of program spending
  2. We held a juried art show in our gallery which featured local photographer cookie segelstein in an exhibit of her wildlife photography. The gallery space is made available for free to the artists allowing them to sell their work throughout the year during concerts and open houses.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. We launched an organ scholarship program in 2025 in honor of dr. Richard cushman to create sustainable pathways for organ preservation and instruction and currently have three students enrolled in the program. In november 2025 the students performed a benefit concert alongside their instructor arthur omura. The program is partially supported by dedicated donations.

    $2,555 spent
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,697.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2023 Revenue 108 ($66k) Expenses 166 ($60k) Net assets 103 ($69k)2024 Revenue 129 ($78k) Expenses 170 ($61k) Net assets 132 ($88k)2025 Revenue 144 ($87k) Expenses 195 ($70k) Net assets 166 ($110k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (144)Expenses (195)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $88k to $111k (+26%).

$70k
$70k
$88k
$111k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

45% of CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’22
$6k
’23
$17k
’24
$17k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Tiffany Fajardo

Trustee and executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $2k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS?
CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being George J and Theresa L Cotsirilos Merced Foundation ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,500 in grants to CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & ARTS?
George J and Theresa L Cotsirilos Merced Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALLIOPE EAST BAY MUSIC & 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.

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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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