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CRAFT CONTEMPORARY

CRAFT CONTEMPORARY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,698,371 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($852,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$2.9M
26/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Craft Contemporary does

Mission

Craft Contemporary challenges established ideas about craft and folk art and engages people through diverse exhibitions and programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Craft Contemporary is an art museum whose purpose is to reveal the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower. Craft Contemporary achieves its mission by exhibiting the artists of our time, giving voice to local artists, emerging artists and often under-recognized mid-career artists by creating approximately six exhibitions annually.the museum strives to achieve equitable access through free and low-cost programs, the inclusion of multiple teaching artists from communities throughout l.a., and a full roster of public programs including: monthly maker nights artist talks and studio visits school tours (for elementary school through college) craft youth culture teen program an older adult workshop series called crafting histories monthly family workshop programs classes in craft skill development

    $1,541,294 spent$69,632 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,541,294.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($892k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 87 ($1.0M) Expenses 109 ($973k) Net assets 104 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 159 ($1.9M) Expenses 111 ($993k) Net assets 170 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 109 ($1.3M) Expenses 87 ($780k) Net assets 220 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 93 ($1.1M) Expenses 121 ($1.1M) Net assets 211 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 194 ($2.3M) Expenses 145 ($1.3M) Net assets 293 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 177 ($1.6M) Net assets 273 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 92 ($1.1M) Expenses 217 ($1.9M) Net assets 218 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (217)Net assets (218)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $3.9M (+38%).

$1.5M
$1.4M
$2.4M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$3.2M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 11% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CRAFT CONTEMPORARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$274k
’17
$42k
’19
$866k
’20
$492k
’21
$5k
’22
$967k
’23
−$429k
’24
−$863k
’25
4.2
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

Rody Lopez

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1918191919191714
Joined··+4+2+1+1+1+5
No longer listed··321138
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $149k → $802k.

7 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

CRAFT CONTEMPORARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

34% 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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY.

23%
largest funder
51%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 21% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% — 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.

How long its funders stay

54% of CRAFT CONTEMPORARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of CRAFT CONTEMPORARY's grant income comes from California funders.

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MI
NY
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CA
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NC
TX

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

CRAFT CONTEMPORARY is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−81% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CRAFT CONTEMPORARY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.

Federal$150k
grants $150kcontracts $0
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21
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$150k

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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 9%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY: 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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY?
CRAFT CONTEMPORARY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,698,371 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($852,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRAFT CONTEMPORARY have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,698,371 in grants to CRAFT CONTEMPORARY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRAFT CONTEMPORARY?
PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $852,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRAFT CONTEMPORARY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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