California · Nonprofit
Eldergivers dba Art With Elders
Eldergivers dba Art With Elders (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,887 to it, the largest being INNER SUNSET COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ($70,172). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $522k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $286k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Eldergivers dba Art With Elders does
Mission
To foster creativity, self-esteem, a sense of community, and improved health in older adults via art classes taught by professional artists. Exhibiting the artworks to the public to connect the elderly to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art With Elders primary activity is to provide year-long art classes that meet regularly in long-term care facilities for the elderly. The elder artists have the opportunity to work with professional artists, who encourage them to explore their own interests, while developing new skills.
$284,245 spent$194,912 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe organization's second focus is the exhibition of work created in our classes, through public showings around the Bay Area and on our website. Art With Elders presents an annual exhibition that showcases artwork from all of our classes. We exhibit artwork year-round at our Senior Communities and at various locations throughout the Bay Area in partnership with other organizations and public institutions.
$66,124 spent$9,981 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,369.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $262k to $148k (−44%).
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 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 30% · 2023 14% · 2024 24% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $4k.
3 of 12 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.
From the IRS filings of Eldergivers dba Art With Elders’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
Eldergivers dba Art With Elders has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
81% 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 Eldergivers dba Art With Elders.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 56% · 2019 72% · 2020 45% · 2021 48% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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
43% of Eldergivers dba Art With Elders's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
99% of Eldergivers dba Art With Elders's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding Eldergivers dba Art With Elders receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 Eldergivers dba Art With Elders
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eldergivers dba Art With Elders: 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 Eldergivers dba Art With Elders?
- Eldergivers dba Art With Elders (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,887 to it, the largest being INNER SUNSET COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ($70,172). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Eldergivers dba Art With Elders have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $285,887 in grants to Eldergivers dba Art With Elders, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eldergivers dba Art With Elders?
- INNER SUNSET COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eldergivers dba Art With Elders 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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