California · Nonprofit
CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS
CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,842 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,363). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $647k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens does
Mission
Casa romantica cultural center and gardens is an award-winning center for the arts and historic landmark. We provide a rich selection of performances, exhibitions, lectures, workshops & tours year-round to people of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Despite ongoing challenges following the landslide of 2023, casa romantica served over 23,000 visitors and delivered over 90 childrens programs, while maintaining a strong commitment to accessibilitynearly 57% of our offerings were $15 or less, and 15% were free. Casa romantica enhanced our gardens by re-curating our pollinator spaces, transforming them into a thriving butterfly waystation and hands-on educational resource. We also launched the studio in the main salon, creating a dynamic space for artists to work, exhibit, and engage directly with guests. In addition, we introduced a youth chamber music program, providing free classical music education to young musicians. 92 cultural events 10 member events 93 weekly classes 48 private events 95 childrens events 305 public hours 3 fundraisers 15 field trips 8 volunteer events 15% of our events are free 57% of our events are low cost ($5-$15) over 650 facility uses
$981,001 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $981,001.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $2.5M (−27%).
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 9% · 2021 32% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kylie Travis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $15k → $152k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS’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
CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
74% 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 CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 60% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
65% of CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS'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 $230k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $417k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS: 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 CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS?
- CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,842 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,363). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $646,842 in grants to CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS 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 21 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