California · Nonprofit
EastSide Arts Alliance
EastSide Arts Alliance (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,114,759 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,455,480). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What EastSide Arts Alliance does
Mission
Cultural visual a n d performing arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
EastSide Cultural Center ProjectEastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) has continued to expand its programming ni our EastSide Cultural Center facility. The EastSide Cultural Center also supports over 50 community organizations, artists, musicians, performers, schools and community groups with very affordable multi-use theater space for performances, concerts, celebrations, benefit events, rehearsals, retreats, meetings, trainings, film screenings, and workshops. Our online donor program continues to grow steadily and contributed toward sustaining organizational operations. EastSide Arts Alliance eventsEastside pivoted activities due to the pandemic and restrictions for ni- person events, our weekly poetry open mic, poetry writing workshop moved to an online format and successfully continued with an expanding audience. We introduced Live Arts ni Resistance Virtual with video clips, photo images and interviews with performing artists about their work. Sadly, what would have been our 21st Annual Jazz Arts festival offered free to the public in a local park attracting over 2800 community members had to be cancelled due to pandemic restrictions on public gatherings. Once Eastside si able to…
$1,389,567 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,389,567.
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 $2.4M to $2.8M (+15%).
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 4% · 2018 14% · 2019 17% · 2020 22% · 2021 14% · 2023 47% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of EastSide Arts Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $826k → $1.4M.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EastSide Arts Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
EastSide Arts Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
37% 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 EastSide Arts Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 45% · 2019 41% · 2020 32% · 2021 18% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% — 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
25% of EastSide Arts Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
EastSide Arts Alliance draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EastSide Arts Alliance holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EastSide Arts Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 EastSide Arts Alliance
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 EastSide Arts Alliance: 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 EastSide Arts Alliance?
- EastSide Arts Alliance (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,114,759 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,455,480). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EastSide Arts Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $8,114,759 in grants to EastSide Arts Alliance, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EastSide Arts Alliance?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,455,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EastSide Arts Alliance 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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