California · Nonprofit
Design Bay Area
Design Bay Area (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $220,000 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS ($220,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Design Bay Area does
Mission
The specific purposes of this Corporation include, in all areas of design: sharing design history, expertise, information and resources while creating opportunities through regional, state and citywide events; fostering conversations, education and partnerships and collaborations that benefit society and members of the general public by utilizing the power of design; and fostering economic opportunity through supporting diversity of participants in the design fields, amplifying the voices of California designers and of those in adjacent fields, and by educating the design-savvy public by making resources and information available to them on a not-for-profit basis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
San Francisco Design Week (7 days of events)
$77,731 spent$140,984 earned by the program69% of program spendingDesign Healdsburg (2 days of events)
$29,926 spent$25,692 earned by the program27% of program spendingAwards
$5,080 spent$14,756 earned by the program5% of program spendingPop-Up events throughout the year.
$2,685 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $241k to $94k (−61%).
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 Design Bay Area’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. 3 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Alana Washington
Chair
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 Design Bay Area’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 Design Bay Area'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
Design Bay Area receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $220k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Design Bay Area
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Design Bay Area: 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 Design Bay Area?
- Design Bay Area (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $220,000 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS ($220,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Design Bay Area have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $220,000 in grants to Design Bay Area.
- Who is the largest funder of Design Bay Area?
- THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Design Bay Area 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 2022–2025), 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