California · Nonprofit
DSTL ARTS
DSTL ARTS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,354 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Dstl Arts does
Mission
DSTL Arts is a nonprofit arts mentorship organization that inspires, teaches, and hires emerging artists from underserved communities. This mission is achieved through our multiple programs, including our Poet/Artist Development Program, which mentors, trains, and publishes Emerging Poet/Artists from historically marginalized communities; our Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop series for adults, and its associated publication, the Conchas y Café Zine; and our annual sister publications, Art Block Zine and Aurtistic Zine. In FY2025, our organization published a total of 8 new publications and served over 1,000 individuals through live workshops, readings, and direct mentorships (digital and in-person). This is in addition to the 978 viewers of our video-recorded workshops presented online via YouTube.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Poet/Artist Development Program served up to 33 Emerging Poet/Artists, providing direct mentorship and guidance in workforce development-related skills specifically relevant to working artists. This program offered approximately 750 hours of direct mentorship, with an additional 8 hours of professional and workforce development instruction for our mentees and the broader community. Furthermore, this program continued offering Teaching Artist Internships for program participants and also continued producing our podcast, Art Block, featuring writers and artists from across our programs and community.
$5,720 spentof which $10,000 as grants62% of program spendingConchas y Café Zine is the product of our Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop Series for Adults, offered virtually for FY2025. This biannual, 15-week series continued providing instruction in literary concepts and techniques to participants while publishing their creative writing at the culmination of the two-semester series of workshops. For FY2025, this program produced 1 new publication, with 1 accompanying public reading, serving approximately 450 individuals across all workshop sessions, the reading, and publication distribution. Furthermore, this was accomplished entirely online, utilizing various virtual platforms for instruction, including Zoom, social media livestreams, and YouTube for hosting recorded lessons.
$1,002 spentof which $10,000 as grants11% of program spendingArt Block Zine and Aurtistic Zine are annual, sister publications that feature Emerging Poet/Artists from both Los Angeles County and nationwide, respectively. Both publications have annual open calls for submission from individuals, and each publication seeks to highlight the works of individuals from historically marginalized and underserved populations. In FY2025, our publications released 2 new volumes and served approximately 60 individuals through publication, with an additional 150 total publications distributed in FY2025. Additionally, approximately 150 individuals watched the previously recorded publication readings on the DSTL Arts YouTube channel throughout FY2025. Lastly, our podcast is produced under the banner of the Art Block Zine program, and it reaches an average audience of 400 viewers/listeners annually.
$1,001 spentof which $10,000 as grants11% of program spendingOur Creative Impact workshop series (a sub-program of our Poet/Artist Development Program) offered a paid Teaching Artist Residency for 1 Poet/Artist from a historically marginalized community in Los Angeles County. This program provided 4 in-person social justice-focused workshops that explored the impact of immigration on our local community, and 4 virtual workshops. This program resulted in 1 new publication featuring the artworks of our Teaching Poet/Artists, workshop participants, and LA-based artists, and 1 in-person reading with a social media-based livestream featuring select poets and artists who contributed to the publication. Approximately 300 total individuals engaged with the program either as workshop participants or audience members viewing the associated workshop recordings and readings/performances conducted as a culmination event for the workshop series. The post-program views on YouTube of all related workshops and reading recordings resulted in an additional 200+ individuals benefiting from this program.
$1,510 spentof which $15,540 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,233.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $89k to $47k (−47%).
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: 2023 81% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of DSTL ARTS’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. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Luis Antonio Pichardo
Founder, Executive Director; President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $46k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 DSTL ARTS’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
DSTL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 DSTL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 63% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
76% of DSTL ARTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DSTL ARTS has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding DSTL ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 DSTL ARTS
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 DSTL ARTS: 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 DSTL ARTS?
- DSTL ARTS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,354 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DSTL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $169,354 in grants to DSTL ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DSTL ARTS?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DSTL ARTS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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