California · Nonprofit
Chitresh Das Institute
Chitresh Das Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,357 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($98,692). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Chitresh Das Institute does
Mission
The mission of Chitresh Das Institute is to expand awareness of and increase audiences for the Indian classical kathak tradition and other related cultural and artistic traditions by building community, training the next generation of artists and presenting performances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chitresh Das Institute has four main programs: 1. Chitresh Das Institute classes are led by teachers who were trained by the great kathak master, Pandit Chitresh Das. CDI teachers are committed to nurturing the whole student, mind, body and spirit, through the art of kathak dance.2. Presenting world class performances of traditional and innovative Indian classical dance and music as well as cross-cultural and cross-genre collaborations. 3. Pandit Chitresh Das founded a youth company with Charlotte Moraga as the Director in 2002. The Chitresh Das Youth Company (CDYC) was formed to provide youth with the opportunity to study directly under this great master. Charlotte Moraga, who
$343,271 spent$385,539 earned by the program100% of program spendingdirected the Youth Company for over a decade under Pandit Das, continues to provide the intensive training and pre-professional performance experience. In addition to training in technique and theory, members learn history, philosophy, mathematics and spirituality that form the foundation of kathak and the philosophy of Pandit Chitresh Das.4. The Next Generation Artists Development program will provide selected artists with:A. Intensive, transformative training in kathak dance technique, movement, theory, upaj (improvisation) and performanceB. Exposure to master artists in related forms (percussion, vocal and others)
C. Guidance in navigating the artist pathD. Performance opportunities to hone ones craft, develop an artistic voice and build community supportE. Provide next generation artists with funding to create and present original works
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,271.
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 2019 to 2020, from $138k to $229k (+66%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 14% · 2021 8% · 2022 38% · 2023 10% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of Chitresh Das Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Celine Schein Das
President & CEO
Board chair
Lori Laqua
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $14k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Chitresh Das Institute’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
Chitresh Das Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Chitresh Das Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 72% · 2022 94% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of Chitresh Das Institute'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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
Chitresh Das Institute has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chitresh Das Institute
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Chitresh Das Institute: 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 Chitresh Das Institute?
- Chitresh Das Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,357 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($98,692). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Chitresh Das Institute have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $127,357 in grants to Chitresh Das Institute, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chitresh Das Institute?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $98,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chitresh Das Institute 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 5 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