California · Nonprofit
Destiny Arts Center
Destiny Arts Center (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678,700 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,727,500). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Destiny Arts Center does
Mission
Destiny Arts inspires and ignites social change through the arts.When we are successful, young people grow up to live meaningful, connected, and secure lives in an inclusive society. As a leading creative youth development organization that equally values mastery of movement arts, inclusive communities, and cultivating advocates for peace, Destiny Arts Center:Delivers programs that develop creative, powerful, and peaceful youth and communities.Creates a welcoming culture of inclusion, and Trains expert, diverse teaching artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our School and Community Programs delivered 78 residencies across 56 sites, reaching more than 4,500 students throughout Oakland and the broader East Bay. The majority of sites remain Title I schools in East and West Oakland. Through sustained district and county partnerships, we deepened our presence in communities most impacted by systemic inequities.Our early childhood work continued to grow through Move, Play, Grow, offering joyful, developmentally responsive classes that integrate movement, storytelling, literacy, and social-emotional development. This program supports young children and caregivers who are not consistently connected to formal early learning systems, strengthening school readiness and protective family factors.
$1,093,699 spent46% of program spendingIn 2025, Destiny Arts Center served more than 5,000 young people, ages 3 to 24, through culturally affirming programs rooted in movement arts, healing, and community connection.This year was intentionally focused on strengthening our foundation after several years of rapid growth. As we expanded programs, partnerships, and staffing, FY26 became a year of catching up with that growth, building stronger systems, clarifying roles, and creating a clear continuum for institutional knowledge so that our impact is sustainable and not dependent on any one person. We invested in alignment, documentation, and leadership development to ensure long-term stability.
$566,901 spent24% of program spendingAt our North Oakland Center, over 600 students were served through after-school, weekend, and summer camp programming, participating in dance, martial arts, theater, and movement arts classes. This year we also rolled out new breakdancing offerings, including Little Breakers for ages 5 to 7 and breakdancing for ages 8 to 12. These classes have quickly become a strong addition to our programming, engaging new students and expanding our hip hop and street arts pathway. Our Center continues to serve as a hub for belonging, creative expression, and leadership development, including our Healing Arts Community Pathway for young adults exploring somatics and community care.
$541,474 spent23% of program spendingIn East Oakland, we expanded community-based martial arts programming at Clinton Recreation Center in partnership with TRYBE. These classes provide consistent, accessible movement arts opportunities for youth and families, strengthening neighborhood connection and offering structured outlets rooted in discipline, confidence, and respect.Our CARE Team expanded its impact, welcoming three social work interns, two from UC Berkeley and one from Cal State East Bay, to strengthen case management and family support services. In addition to operating our food pantry, the CARE Team increased family grocery services for households with higher needs, providing more consistent access to food and wraparound support.Internally, we shifted Teaching Artist professional development to a weekly model to better accommodate schedules and strengthen community building among staff. This shift allowed for ongoing skill development, clearer communication, and stronger alignment across programs.Across all programs, Destiny Arts Center remains committed to building spaces where young people and families experience safety, connection, creativity, and opportunity, while ensuring that our growth is grounded…
$173,989 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,376,063.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $4.0M (+33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 9% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% · 2024 23% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Destiny Arts Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $494k → $835k.
18 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Destiny Arts Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
Destiny Arts Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
29% 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 Destiny Arts Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 44% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 50% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Destiny Arts Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of Destiny Arts Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Destiny Arts Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Destiny Arts Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 Destiny Arts Center
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Destiny Arts Center: 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 Destiny Arts Center?
- Destiny Arts Center (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678,700 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,727,500). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Destiny Arts Center have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $7,678,700 in grants to Destiny Arts Center, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Destiny Arts Center?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,727,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Destiny Arts Center 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 78 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