California · Nonprofit
CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER
CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,392 to it, the largest being THE MCINTYRE FOUNDATION ($306,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $863k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $878k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Carpinteria Arts Center does
Mission
The Carpinteria Arts Center's mission is creating a vibrant community through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The center offered 80 in-person educational arts classes for all ages. Special youth projects included an annual teen mural reception that had 75 people in attendance. In addition, 7 weeks of summer arts camp served 98 youth, 27 of whom received full scholarships or reduced tuition. The center also offered volunteer opportunities and a youth leadership training program to 24 teens.
$506,291 spent$82,844 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe center offered a free 6-month public concert series, 9 monthly arts & crafts faires with a free community art project table, free cultural events,and a holiday festival. The center provided free arts and cultural workshops and performances to under-resourced residents on-site at people's self-help housing's 3 apartment complexes in carpinteria and at carpinteria childrens project. The center provided weekly free arts and crafts classes to carpinteria seniors ages 55+. The center also offered free venue use to 15 local non profit organizations.
$127,965 spent$24,746 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe center hosted 6 different community arts exhibits in the gallery which is staffed by a team of 75 community volunteers. The center offered free art receptions, artist talks, and gallery host training and events. The center offered free art receiptions to 3 local schools and 2 local non- profit organizations. The center used the gallery to host the 3-week holiday-inspired "festival of trees" event with the lions club of carpinteria, collaborating with over 20 fellow local nonprofits.
$38,237 spent$35,413 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $672,493.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $3.8M (−7%).
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 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Tim Cohen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $278k → $64k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
25% 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 CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 64% · 2019 36% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
23% of CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
83% of CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: 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 CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER?
- CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,392 to it, the largest being THE MCINTYRE FOUNDATION ($306,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $878,392 in grants to CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER?
- THE MCINTYRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $306,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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