California · Nonprofit
DAVID Z FOUNDATION
DAVID Z FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,957 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($46,815). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $-193117
What David Z Foundation does
Mission
The David Z Foundation is a non-profit organization created in memory of DavidZablidowsky and dedicated to transforming lives through the magic of music. Our goal is to nurture that creative musical spark that a child has and help turn it into a sustainable reality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Medley Music program is designed to offer students a unique opportunity to create and produce an original song and music video that is focused on an educational topic of their choosing. Students work with a teaching artists and other industry professionals to bring their version of fruition. The program helps students build skills in project management, promotes the enhancement of collaborative skills, and creates a safe space for self-expression and creativity.
$58,060 spent100% of program spendingThe Music program is an innovative way to address youth mental health and facilities prosocial/emotional development through lyrical composition. Through this program students use songwriting as a vehicle to channel their experiences and emotions into original music and video production with the assistance of a teaching artist. This program is open to all children but is especially geared towards those at high risk for emotional and mental health challeges.
The David Z Foundation scholarship program offers financial assistance to students seeking to expand their music education. The program focuses on offsetting the cost of tuition. We partner with various music schools across the country that offer equitable and valuable proramming to all levels of aspiring numbers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $62k to $89k (+42%).
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.
100% of DAVID Z FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $18k → $17k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 DAVID Z FOUNDATION’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
DAVID Z FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 DAVID Z FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 97% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of DAVID Z FOUNDATION'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DAVID Z FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 DAVID Z FOUNDATION
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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DAVID Z FOUNDATION: 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 DAVID Z FOUNDATION?
- DAVID Z FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,957 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($46,815). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAVID Z FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $70,957 in grants to DAVID Z FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAVID Z FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $46,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAVID Z FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), 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