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Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE

Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,561 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($26,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$86k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$160k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE does

Mission

Enrich arts and education at Emerson Community Charter Middle School.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 8th Grade Culmination

    $3,668 spent
    14% of program spending
  2. Academy Field Trips

    $11,027 spent
    42% of program spending
  3. School Club Expenses

    $6,073 spent
    23% of program spending
  4. Grade Level Trips

    $4,218 spent
    16% of program spending
  5. Camp Emerson Orientation

    $1,086 spent
    4% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,072.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($171k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2020 Revenue 118 ($202k) Expenses 91 ($178k) Net assets 121 ($143k)2021 Revenue 35 ($60k) Expenses 17 ($33k) Net assets 144 ($170k)2022 Revenue 40 ($68k) Expenses 23 ($45k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 29 ($49k) Expenses 29 ($56k) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 50 ($86k) Expenses 26 ($51k) Net assets 135 ($160k)
201920202021202220232025
Revenue (50)Expenses (26)Net assets (135)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $170k to $0 (−100%).

$118k
$143k
$170k
$0
$0
$160k
201920202021202220232025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’19
$25k
’20
$27k
’21
$23k
’22
−$7k
’23
$35k
’25
60
months of
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.

20202021
Listed55
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $6k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE’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

Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE.

40%
largest funder
87%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 87% · 2022 72% · 2023 92% — 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.

Where its funders are

59% of Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE?
Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,561 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($26,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $64,561 in grants to Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE?
THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Emerson Arts and Education Foundation PACE 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 6 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