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COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT

COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,850 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($115,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$237k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$283k
Net assets
$284k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Community Arts & Empowerment does

Mission

Through community engagement, we help identify the values of a neighborhood and the visual aesthetics of its members. We seek out local artists to assist in the design of local community-based public art work and we facilitate community builds for the fabrication of permanent public art.our process empowers communities by encouraging members to spend time with each other defining their social and physical identities. Returning individuals teach and learn new skills together for the benefit of all, transforming a physical space into a magical place.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community Arts & Empowerment is formed to make art for, by and with the public, to build community identity, pride and connections through public art projects, and foster creativity and empower communities through the arts.In 2024 we completed 6 public art projects:?A seat wall and three sidewalk medallions for the Bienestar housing project in Capitola? Two sidewalk medallions for Memorial Park in Watsonville ?A donor wall and pillars for an arch for the Capitola Wharf in Capitola? Angel wings for the Gerry Loyola Foundation at the Watsonville Community Golf Course? The Farm Worker Project, which consisted of 200 small mosaics. Gifts for people who support Farm worker nonprofits in Watsonville? The completion of Watsonville Brillante, the 12,500 ft Mosaic, which covers the Civic Parking Garage in downtown Watsonville. do you?We also conducted a monthly tour of the public art mosaics in Watsonville, and 146 individuals participated in our tours.?We hosted 4 school groups for workshops, and approximately 118 students participatedWe had 363 volunteers donated 2736 volunteer hours in 2024.We had 10 paid youth interns in 2024.

    $295,435 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $295,435.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($209k)2020 Revenue 78 ($191k) Expenses 549 ($202k) Net assets 95 ($197k)2021 Revenue 119 ($292k) Expenses 508 ($187k) Net assets 145 ($302k)2022 Revenue 120 ($294k) Expenses 668 ($246k) Net assets 168 ($351k)2023 Revenue 138 ($338k) Expenses 831 ($306k) Net assets 183 ($382k)2024 Revenue 96 ($237k) Expenses 907 ($334k) Net assets 136 ($284k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (96)Expenses (907)Net assets (136)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 2020 to 2021, from $198k to $302k (+53%).

$209k
$198k
$302k
$352k
$383k
$284k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

54% of COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$209k
’19
−$11k
’20
$105k
’21
$48k
’22
$31k
’23
−$98k
’24
9.3
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

Kathleen Crocetti

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20192021202220232024
Listed88897
Joined··+0+1+0
No longer listed··002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $45k.

5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 ARTS & EMPOWERMENT’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 ARTS & EMPOWERMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

86% 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 ARTS & EMPOWERMENT.

41%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 33% · 2021 70% · 2022 49% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

86% of COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k 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 ARTS & EMPOWERMENT is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

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

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT: 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 COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT?
COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,850 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($115,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $282,850 in grants to COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $115,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY ARTS & EMPOWERMENT 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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