California · Nonprofit
Diablo Regional Arts Association
Diablo Regional Arts Association (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,981,109 to it, the largest being Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation ($1,085,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Diablo Regional Arts Association does
Mission
DRAA invests in outstanding arts experiences and creates avenues for everyone to enjoy the arts. DRAA brings world-class performances and inspiring arts education to the East Bay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Headliner SeriesDRAA's Lesher Center Presents Headliner Series features major touring artists and arts organizations. Throughout the year the lineup includes internationally recognized top-tier talent from the world of comedy, dance, theater, world-music and family-friendly programming brought to you by the Lesher Center and Diablo Regional Arts Association.
$963,290 spent$253,614 earned by the program54% of program spendingEducation and OutreachThe Arts Access School-Time Program is an innovative and collaborative program that focuses on outreach to Title 1 schools from the most impoverished neighborhoods in the East Bay. It provides qualifying schools with free tickets and transportation to high-quality professional performances at the Lesher Center for the Arts. Since 2008, these programs have served more than 70,000 East Bay families, youth, and educators who would not otherwise have an opportunity to experience high-quality live performances and visual arts exhibits. DRAA also provides California Content Standards-based curriculum materials for teachers to use, which enhances the students and teachers' experience well beyond the day of the field trip.
$551,281 spent$5,607 earned by the program31% of program spendingBedford Gallery and Center REP Bedford Gallery - DRAA is proud to support the Bedford Gallery exhibition and outreach programs. The Bedford Gallery, located in the Lesher Center for the Arts, is dedicated to providing opportunities to learn about visual arts through varied, accessible, challenging, and educational exhibitions and programs. Center REP - DRAA is honored to support Center REPertory Company, the resident professional theatre company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Center REP celebrates the power of the human imagination by producing emotionally engaging, intellectually involving, and visually astonishing live theatre through outreach and education programs to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities we serve. Continued on Schedule O
$146,710 spent8% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Bedford Gallery and Center REP Bedford Gallery - DRAA is proud to support the Bedford Gallery exhibition and outreach programs. The Bedford Gallery, located in the Lesher Center for the Arts, is dedicated to providing opportunities to learn about visual arts through varied, accessible, challenging, and educational exhibitions and programs. Center REP - DRAA is honored to support Center REPertory Company, the resident professional theatre company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Center REP celebrates the power of the human imagination by producing emotionally engaging, intellectually involving, and visually astonishing live theatre through outreach and education programs to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities we serve. Continued on Schedule O OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Continued from Form 990 Page 2OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES Fiesta Cultural is a week of vibrant events and performances at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts. Fiesta Cultural is a celebration of Latinx/a/o art and culture and also includes a free street fair with music and dance from the diverse cultures of Latin America.
$118,401 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,779,682.
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 $2.6M to $3.3M (+27%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Diablo Regional Arts Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $102k → $511k.
13 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Diablo Regional Arts Association); $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Diablo Regional Arts Association raised.
From the IRS filings of Diablo Regional Arts Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Diablo Regional Arts Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
27% 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 Diablo Regional Arts Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 33% · 2019 46% · 2020 64% · 2021 20% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — 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
50% of Diablo Regional Arts Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
90% of Diablo Regional Arts Association's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $790k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Diablo Regional Arts Association's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Diablo Regional Arts Association
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 Diablo Regional Arts Association: 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 Diablo Regional Arts Association?
- Diablo Regional Arts Association (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,981,109 to it, the largest being Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation ($1,085,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Diablo Regional Arts Association have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,981,109 in grants to Diablo Regional Arts Association, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Diablo Regional Arts Association?
- Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Diablo Regional Arts Association 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.
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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing