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CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN

CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,321 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($12,462). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$197k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$0
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Chalk It Up Sacramento Its the Chalk of the Town does

Mission

To support youth chalk art

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To engage the community in support of youth chalk art

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2020 Revenue 69 ($37k) Expenses 111 ($36k) Net assets 111 ($49k)2021 Revenue 117 ($64k) Expenses 108 ($35k) Net assets 182 ($79k)2022 Revenue 404 ($219k) Expenses 385 ($124k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 377 ($205k) Expenses 432 ($139k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 363 ($197k) Expenses 522 ($168k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (363)Expenses (522)Net assets (0)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 2021 to 2022, from $79k to $164k (+107%).

$44k
$49k
$79k
$164k
$204k
$233k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’19
$2k
’20
$29k
’21
$95k
’22
$66k
’23
$29k
’24
17
months of
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

Raquelle Nelson

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed455
Joined·+4+0
No longer listed·30
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $5k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN’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

CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN.

44%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

81% of CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve16.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN?
CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,321 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($12,462). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,321 in grants to CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN?
Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHALK IT UP SACRAMENTO ITS THE CHALK OF THE TOWN 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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