California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,956,027 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,538,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Community School of Music and Arts does
Mission
Csma inspires excellence through art and music education for people of all ages and abilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music:the school offers private music lessons, classes, ensembles, workshops, camps, and master classes for nearly 2,300 students, taught by a distinguished international faculty of 62 on over 15 instruments. The school also offers a wide variety of concerts and lectures in tateuchi hall. The school offers quality lessons and classes directly to employees of corporate partners during the workday, giving them the opportunity to recharge, refocus, and re-energize through a creative experience.the school provides free public performances at the finn center year-round. The school's community concert series in tateuchi hall at the finn center includes diverse performances and events by csma merit scholars, faculty, and professional musicians.
$4,618,451 spentof which $153,726 as grants$4,111,259 earned by the program59% of program spendingIn-school:the school offers award-wining in-school programs, art4schools and music4schools, reaching nearly 22,000 students at 49 schools in san mateo and santa clara counties with a sequential, standards-based, and comprehensive curriculum. The school raises funds to subsidize programs at schools servicing students at high risk of academic failure. The program's reach is extended by after school art clubs and music programs. The art4schools curriculum develops technical skills and an understanding of the language of art while also teaching appreciation and cultural understanding of art and its history. End-of-the-year exhibits present thousands of pieces of student art.the music4schools program teaches singing, creative movement, instruments, music appreciation, and cultural understanding of music and its origins. In addition, students have the opportunity to participate in an instrumental music program during school hours and/or after school. End-of-the-year choral and instrumental music performances let children share what they have learned before a live audience.
$2,291,142 spentof which $211,678 as grants$1,901,131 earned by the program29% of program spendingArt school:the school provides on-site art instruction, including weekly classes, vacation camps, and special workshops. Annually, nearly 1,500 children, youth, teens, and adults receive instruction in a variety of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, multimedia composition, animation, and folk arts. Vacation camps for children in grades k-8 offer fun and creative classes in a safe and supportive atmosphere. The school also offers exhibitions and art lectures in the mohr gallery.the school provides free gallery exhibitions onsite at the finn center year-round. Exhibitions in the mohr gallery at the finn center showcase emerging and established visual artists with artist talks, receptions, and hands-on workshops. In addition, csma participates in a number of community outreach events annually, providing free hands-on arts activities, information booths, public performances, and exhibitions at local fairs and festivals and other public venues (e.g. Hospitals, businesses, etc.).
$979,047 spentof which $34,478 as grants$786,940 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,888,640.
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 $19M to $21M (+10%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 16% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Adriana Marcial
Executive director
Board chair
Sharmila Acharya
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $858k → $441k.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% — 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
55% of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
96% of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS's revenue grew 33% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS?
- COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,956,027 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,538,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,956,027 in grants to COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,538,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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