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CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC

CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,289 to it, the largest being HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$445k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$365k
Net assets
$318k
4/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo Inc does

Mission

Sponsoring and supporting activities of a cultural, artistic and educational nature for the benefit of the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The civic ballet of san luis obispo, inc. Sponsors performances of the nutcracker and spring gala ballets which are attended by the general public within the san luis obispo area.

    $320,651 spent$247,563 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $320,651.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 102 ($181k) Expenses 112 ($176k) Net assets 106 ($84k)2019 Revenue 96 ($170k) Expenses 108 ($170k) Net assets 105 ($84k)2020 Revenue 105 ($186k) Expenses 117 ($185k) Net assets 106 ($84k)2021 Revenue 36 ($64k) Expenses 46 ($73k) Net assets 95 ($75k)2022 Revenue 216 ($382k) Expenses 140 ($222k) Net assets 297 ($236k)2023 Revenue 115 ($205k) Expenses 118 ($186k) Net assets 320 ($255k)2024 Revenue 151 ($268k) Expenses 188 ($296k) Net assets 285 ($226k)2025 Revenue 251 ($445k) Expenses 224 ($353k) Net assets 400 ($318k)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (224)Net assets (400)

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 $75k to $236k (+214%).

$79k
$85k
$85k
$85k
$75k
$236k
$255k
$226k
$318k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 28% · 2023 29% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$5k
’18
−$575
’19
$668
’20
−$9k
’21
$161k
’22
$18k
’23
−$29k
’24
$92k
’25
11
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.

2022202320242025
Listed8888
Joined·+1+0+3
No longer listed·103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $58k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
1
3
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC’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

CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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

100% of CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC?
CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,289 to it, the largest being HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $365,289 in grants to CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC?
HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC 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 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