California · Nonprofit
FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,350,514 to it, the largest being THE ZEGAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($800,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $881k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $749k
What Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center does
Mission
The Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center pullum center is a nonprofit organization providing free, quality performing arts instruction to more than 1,200 at-risk youth, ages 5 - 20. Our vision is to use the performing arts to empower the children of south los angeles to understand their true value, impact their community as positive role models and inspire them to expand their dreams of who they can become. Our instruction includes musical instruments e.g. Piano, guitar, saxophone, clarinet, flute, trumpet, trombone, and drums, voice, drama, dance, jazz band, music recording and film making. We teach students at our headquarters building as well as in neighboring schools, providing both after-school and in-school instruction. Students are given opportunities to perform in class showcases as well as in major musical productions that are staged each semester and open to the public. Advanced music students may join the centers jazz band which performs regularly at community and high-profile events that often involve major recording artists. In return for receiving instruction, the students commit to monthly community service activities involving the homeless and senior citizens. The…
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
During fy24, pullum center provided 121 classes per week for 1,200 students. The classes include senior jazz band, junior jazz band, piano, choir, music recording, guitar, drums, beginning instruments, dance, step and tap. During the summer session, 148 classes were offered per week, and four field trips. During the 2023-24 school year, pullum center presented two musicals, "the jungle book and "high school." each musical engaged approximately 70 students on and off stage. During the year, students participated in 37 public performances and community outreach events. Pullum center is a member of the berkelee city music network, a network of 46 community organizations in the united states, canada and latin america that collectively benefit over 46,000 students from underserved communities.
$978,326 spent$40,229 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $978,326.
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. 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 $1.0M to $749k (−28%).
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: 2020 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Chief executive
Fernando Pullum
Executive director
Board chair
Jim O'Brien
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $372k.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
45% 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 FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 37% · 2019 28% · 2020 37% · 2021 68% · 2022 28% · 2023 40% — 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
47% of FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER draws 68% 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. $901k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: 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 FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER?
- FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,350,514 to it, the largest being THE ZEGAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($800,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,350,514 in grants to FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER?
- THE ZEGAR FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 38 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