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COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST

COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,345,036 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,520,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.0M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$28M
10/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Community Art Stabilization Trust does

Mission

To create stable physical spaces for arts and cultural organizations to facilitate equitable urban transformation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community Art Stabilization Trust creates stable physical spaces for arts and cultural organizations, properties for purchase or master leasing, and implementing complementary initiatives which build knowledge and capability of arts organizations to make thoughtful, informed decisions regarding real estate matters. Initiatives include the keeping space - oakland program which provides technical assistance, networking opportunities, research and limited re-granting funds supporting arts organizations' efforts to find, secure and manage long-term real estate projects.

    $6,255,549 spentof which $505,852 as grants$4,184,121 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,255,549.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 243 ($10M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 171 ($22M)2019 Revenue 24 ($1.0M) Expenses 122 ($1.7M) Net assets 168 ($22M)2020 Revenue 88 ($3.7M) Expenses 75 ($1.0M) Net assets 190 ($25M)2021 Revenue 212 ($9.1M) Expenses 148 ($2.0M) Net assets 247 ($32M)2022 Revenue 30 ($1.3M) Expenses 325 ($4.4M) Net assets 224 ($29M)2023 Revenue 148 ($6.3M) Expenses 532 ($7.2M) Net assets 217 ($28M)2024 Revenue 93 ($4.0M) Expenses 303 ($4.1M) Net assets 216 ($28M)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (303)Net assets (216)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 2017 to 2018, from $13M to $22M (+70%).

$13M
$22M
$22M
$27M
$32M
$34M
$30M
$31M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.9M
’17
$9.0M
’18
−$628k
’19
$2.7M
’20
$7.1M
’21
−$3.1M
’22
−$911k
’23
−$159k
’24
10
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.

Chief executive

Kiyoshi Ikeda

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Shelley Trott

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed9988991311
Joined·+0+0+0+3+2+4+1
No longer listed·0102203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $205k → $1.4M.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST’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

COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

37% 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 COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST.

34%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 40% · 2019 38% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 44% — 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

38% of COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

70% of COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.

MI
NY
CA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 17%Fundraising 7%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

37%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Cast 447 Minna LLC · exempt
  • Liberation Park Market Hall · exempt
  • Cast 1007 Market LLC · partnership
  • Cast 80 Turk LLC · partnership
  • Cast Powerhouse Qalicb LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST?
COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,345,036 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,520,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $13,345,036 in grants to COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST 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.

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 13 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