California · Nonprofit
COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC
COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,384 to it, the largest being Center for Cultural Innovation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Collaborative Artists Bloc does
Mission
Collaborative artist bloc (cab) brings dynamic and immersive performing arts experiences to communities of color. We explore cultural identity, promote social change, and build empathy to the full spectrum of our individual realities. We are dedicated to bringing together artists to collaborate and create content of human and artistic value for social change. Our goal is to create art that impacts and shapes the world around us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Various community-engagement events leading up to the stage production of "lines in the dust" which ran from 11/2/23 to 12/10/23.
$34,327 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,327.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $13k (+328%).
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.
100% of COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Desean Terry
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $19k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC’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
COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 52% — 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
62% of COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC
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.
Public support
0%
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 COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC: 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 COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC?
- COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,384 to it, the largest being Center for Cultural Innovation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $70,384 in grants to COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC?
- Center for Cultural Innovation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC 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 2023–2024), 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