California · Nonprofit
CITY FABRICK
CITY FABRICK (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,931 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($900,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $412k
What City Fabrick does
Mission
Mission is to promote, advance and support sustainable and replicable urban planning and development practices, programs and projects, through research, education and technical support to agencies, institutions, organizations and the public in Long Beach, California and nearby areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArchways Santa Ana, completed in 2024, offers 85 affordable homes in Santa Ana, including units for extremely low-income households and permanent supportive housing. Three buildings surround interconnected paseos, courtyards, and a mini park, creating spaces that encourage connection and community. City Fabrick partnered with Community Development Partners on community engagement, schematic-level landscape, building, and graphic design, helping shape a development thats both functional and welcoming. With amenities like a community room, play areas, garden beds, and easy access to public transit, Archways Santa Ana demonstrates how thoughtful design supports residents well-being and long-term stability.Construction has wrapped up on the first phase of Community Develop?ment Partners adaptive reuse of a former Motel 6 property into over forty permanent supportive homes for formerly unsheltered residents in Costa Mesa. Soon after opening, california Governor Gavin Newsom toured the new community to showcase the success of the Homekey program, which is providing financial and regulatory support for similar hotel to permanent supportive homes conversions. The…
$386,130 spent23% of program spendingGREAT PARKS AND PLACES ENVISION LONG BEACH PARKSCity Fabrick is collaborating with our community partners and the City of Long Beach to imagine the future of Scherer Park and Martin Luther King Jr. Park. In front of a crowd of community supporters the Long Beach City Council recently approved the Martin Luther King Jr. Park vision plan. With support from the Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness and Resource Legacy Fund we collaborated with residents and community partners to consider the current park conditions and imagine the future of the park to servecurrent and prospective users. Emerging from that community design process is the new Friends of King Park, who will be champions for the vision plans implementation and stewards for its sustained vibrancy. On the heels of the adoption of King Park Vision Plan the Long Beach City Council approved the second one for Scherer Park. We were fortunate tocollaborate with Long Beach Parks, Recreation, and Marine and the Boysand Girls Club of Long Beach to engage residents, partners, and park users how the park can evolve to continue serving the community and even improve the park user experience. The central tenant of reimagining the…
$292,961 spent17% of program spendingWEST LOS ANGELES VETERANS AFFAIRSAs the US Department of Veteran Affairs Master Plan continues to completion, City Fabrick has been guiding the Community Plans development of over 1,2000 supportive homes, collaborating with dozens of partners to define this action-oriented, inclusive vision. Partners, dignitaries, and residents gathered as Buildings 158 and 210 celebrated a ground-breaking ceremony. Century Housing is adaptively reusing Building 158 as permanent supportive homes to serve formerly homeless Veterans. USVETS are doing the same to Building 210, both within the North Village of the community plan. This marks the start of phase 2 for the development team, which includes the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Thomas Safran and Associates. City Fabrick led the community planning process and continued to support landscape, graphic, and urban design.
$194,790 spent11% of program spendingTRANSFORMING SHORELINE DRIVEIn February 2023, Congressman Robert Garcia announced that the City of Long Beach had been awarded $30 million of federal transportation funds to support transforming Shoreline Drive into a multimodal boulevard while doubling the size of the adjacent Cesar Chavez Park. City Fabrick collaborated with the Congress for New Urbanism to develop the initial report that demonstrates the opportunities for reimagining the two-mile long freeway spur that separates Downtown Long Beach from the Los Angeles River and waterfront. This will be an absolutely transformative project for Long Beach, trading a car-oriented piece of concrete for people centered green space that is honestly needed in this community, Brian Ulaszewski said in the Longbeachize story. Later in the year, the City shared plans for the expanded project that includes replacing the Shoemaker Bridge will an elegant structure that will provide a grand gateway into the Downtown.
$177,268 spent10% of program spendingMiscelleanous programs
$177,007 spent10% of program spendingLONG BEACH PARKSLong Beachs oldest and newest parkthe downtown civic centers recently redeveloped Lincoln Parkis being activated by a collective of community partners including the City of Long Beach, Downtown Long Beach Alliance, S111, and City Fabrick. With financial support from the Long Beach Community Foundation, Knight Foundation, and interTrend, the team is developing a model for enhanced programming and management of the park through public-private partnerships. The growing Lincoln Park collaborative has had some early success supporting unique programming and increased management strategies while City Fabrick is developing a sustaining organization along with associated communications and engagement.
$149,080 spent9% of program spendingMICRO-UNITS IN LONG BEACHWe continue collaborating with Burnham Development and their various partners on creating a multitude of innovative micro-unit developments in Downtown Long Beach as we collectively seek ways to meet the missing middle of housing affordability. We have submitted to the City of Long Beach for planning approvals of two new compact living communities in the North Pine and East Village neighborhoods in the Downtown. 711 Pine will have nearly fifty efficient one-bedroom units while 421 East 4th Street has nearly one hundred studios, both mixed-income consisting of market-rate and deed-restricted affordable homes. Both proposals have abundant common amenities and outdoor spaces, much of which is located on the top floors, providing residents incredible views of the Southland.
$146,242 spent9% of program spendingCOSTA MESA FOR PARK IMPROVEMENTSOver the past year our Landscape Design team has been collaborating with the City of Costa Mesa and Pat West, to engage community members and partners to develop visions for redesigning and expanding two neighborhood parks on the Westside of the city. Shalimar Park is a pocket park that is designed to spill out into the public right-of-way turning the adjacent streetscape into an engaging place for play. The design for Ketchum-Libolt Park will expand available green space by removing a large unused concrete pad and block wall.
$94,441 spent6% of program spendingLADOT - COMMUNITIES FOR SAFER STREETCity Fabrick wrapped up a multi-year collaboration with the Los Angeles Departmentof Transportation to develop community-based visions for improving safety along nearly a dozen high-risk corridors across the city. Working with partners including LADOT, Dakota Communications, People for Mobility Justice, CCE Consulting Group, Sumire Gant Consulting, and local organizations, we used a range of engagement strategies to educate, listen, and co-create solutions that enhance safety,accessibility, and livability. City Fabrick led engagement activities, developed visualiza?tions of the streetscape, and supported planning and data analysis. We are grateful to all our partners and community members who shared their expertise and time to help shape these corridors.
$80,889 spent5% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,698,808.
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 $718k to $942k (+31%).
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 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of CITY FABRICK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Brian Ulaszewski
Executive director
Board chair
Darren Rosenberg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $250k → $165k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CITY FABRICK’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
CITY FABRICK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% — 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
33% of CITY FABRICK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of CITY FABRICK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k 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
CITY FABRICK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CITY FABRICK
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
100%
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 CITY FABRICK: 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 CITY FABRICK?
- CITY FABRICK (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,931 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($900,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY FABRICK have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,597,931 in grants to CITY FABRICK, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY FABRICK?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY FABRICK 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 11 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