California · Nonprofit
DBA ARTSINC
DBA ARTSINC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,377 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($44,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Dba Artsinc does
Mission
The mission of dba arts, inc. Is to cultivate a vibrant arts community, by acting as partner, liaison and catalyst, for independent arts projects and artists, thereby enhancing the sacramento region's arts identity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, dba arts, inc. Deepened its role as a connector and storyteller within sacramento's creative ecosystem. The articulator project continued to highlight local artists, makers, and cultural practitioners through online and print features. New interviews and essays explored themes of placemaking, equity, and creative entrepreneurship, offering an honest look at both the challenges and opportunities of sustaining an arts practice in sacramento. The publication was circulated in key community and hospitality venues, helping visitors and residents alike discover the breadth of artistic talent in the region. Dba arts also supported a series of informal artist conversations and salons, creating space for dialogue around collaboration, shared resources, and the future of sacramento's creative economy. In addition, dba arts continued its support of the sensory dance project, an inclusive ballet and movement experience designed for children on the autism spectrum and their families. These performances provided a welcoming environment for children who may not always have access to traditional performance settings, aligning with dba arts' commitment to lowering barriers to meaningful…
$25,737 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,737.
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 2021 to 2022, from $17k to $38k (+131%).
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.
86% of DBA ARTSINC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $30k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DBA ARTSINC’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
DBA ARTSINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DBA ARTSINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
DBA ARTSINC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DBA ARTSINC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DBA ARTSINC
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DBA ARTSINC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DBA ARTSINC?
- DBA ARTSINC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,377 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($44,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DBA ARTSINC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $84,377 in grants to DBA ARTSINC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DBA ARTSINC?
- IN OUR BACKYARDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DBA ARTSINC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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