California · Nonprofit
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,950 to it, the largest being THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ($8,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $289k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles does
Mission
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an active source of critical dialogue on L.A.?s art community.; the magazine serves as a centralized space for art writing that is bold, honest, approachable, and focused on the here and now. By covering artists from an array of backgrounds and career levels, platforming both emerging and established writers, and working to keep our language and distribution channels as accessible as possible, Carla is on a mission to change what gets written about, who does that writing, and who that writing reaches. Accessibility is a cornerstone of our organization, and we not only serve a community that is engaged in the arts but also offer entry-points to all Angelenos interested in discourses around creativity and resilience. At Carla we believe in ?lateral criticis
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Carla, the quarterly magazine, is our core program, and is a ten-year-old archive of arts coverage, interviews, and imagesto date, we have published 41 print issues. Carlas quarterly print magazine is available in over 170 galleries and art spaces in L.A. and beyond. To date, over 380+ art spaces have been featured in our pages. Carla has published texts by 160+ writers (the vast majority of whom reside in L.A.) about the work of 1,700+ artists who live or exhibit in our city. Our articles are distributed in several university libraries and on community college campuses where they are utilized for educational purposes by arts professors across the nation. In the last fiscal year, our organization produced 4 issues of our printed quarterly magazine, and 12 online reviews, publishing a total of 56 LA-based pieces of art criticism which impacted that many writers, hundreds of local artists and art spaces covered. We hosted 7 member events, which acted as entry points for our community into conversations around art. We held three public launch party events, partnering with local gallery spaces around they city, offering welcoming access points, and we held a successful fundraising…
$95,837 spent$-95,156 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $95,837.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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.
40% of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
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
Lindsay Zappas
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles: 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 Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles?
- Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,950 to it, the largest being THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ($8,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,950 in grants to Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles?
- THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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