California · Nonprofit
DULCE UPFRONT LABS
DULCE UPFRONT LABS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,000 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($180,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $665k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $456k
What Dulce Upfront Labs does
Mission
The primary exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) by Dulce Upfront Labs are arts and culture, event production, community engagement, education, multicultural and multigenerational collaboration, movement building and working with local, state and national partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expanding Access to Arts and Culture Grant- Dulce Upfront operated as a multi-access cultural hub providing year-round arts, wellness, and community programming for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant, and working-class communities in Fresno. The organization supported over 80 artists and community projects through mentorship, fiscal sponsorship, and creative development while expanding partnerships with local schools, organizations, and businesses to strengthen Fresnos cultural and creative economy.
$166,557 spentof which $454,995 as grants68% of program spendingEAAC 2025 Project Specific Grant - Dulce Upfront expanded access to arts, culture, and community engagement in Fresno through year-round programming, artist development, and creative infrastructure. In 2025, the organization launched St. Dulce, a new cultural hub serving BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant, and working-class communities while hosting over 50 events and providing mentorship, fiscal sponsorship, and technical assistance to emerging artists and community-led projects.
$48,761 spentof which $8,662 as grants20% of program spendingKresge Grant- Supported general operations for ongoing arts and cultural programming, including arts-based advocacy initiatives. Funding strengthened Dulce Upfronts capacity to provide consistent community-centered creative programming and cultural engagement in Fresno.
$28,618 spentof which $100,000 as grants12% of program spendingARPA Grant - Supported LGBTQ+ and BIPOC arts education and wellness events in the City of Fresno. Funding helped provide inclusive cultural programming, creative engagement opportunities, and community wellness activities for underserved residents.
$2,000 spentof which $6,600 as grants1% of program spendingThe California Endowment: Chicano Youth Center Grant- The Chicano Youth Center advanced youth wellness, cultural healing, and community engagement through arts-based programming and culturally responsive education in Californias Central Valley. The program created safe spaces for underserved youth to participate in creative expression, wellness activities, leadership development, and community-building opportunities focused on health equity and cultural empowerment.
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,936.
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 2024 to 2025, from $66k to $457k (+594%).
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.
1% of DULCE UPFRONT LABS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Ome Quetzal Lopez
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of DULCE UPFRONT LABS’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
DULCE UPFRONT LABS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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
98% of DULCE UPFRONT LABS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
DULCE UPFRONT LABS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DULCE UPFRONT LABS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 DULCE UPFRONT LABS: 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 DULCE UPFRONT LABS?
- DULCE UPFRONT LABS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,000 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($180,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DULCE UPFRONT LABS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $226,000 in grants to DULCE UPFRONT LABS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DULCE UPFRONT LABS?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DULCE UPFRONT LABS 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 4 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