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FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP

FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,522 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$573k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$92k
Net assets
$617k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Foothill Creative Arts Group does

Mission

Open to all. Creative Arts Group provides classes,exhibitions and programs in the arts for adults and children in a friendly and nurturing environment. It provides a means for discovering self-expression.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Creative Arts Group provides an educational program of classes, workshops and exhibits in various branches of the arts including drawing, enamelimg, pottery, jewely fabrication and more for adults and children of all ethnicities and economic backgrounds. Bringing together the richness of our diverse community, an individual has the opportunity to discover self-expression and develop an understanding and appreciation of others through the arts.

    $536,205 spentof which $13,889 as grants$366,095 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $536,205.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($396k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($400k)2021 Revenue 140 ($555k) Expenses 119 ($466k) Net assets 122 ($489k)2022 Revenue 136 ($539k) Expenses 123 ($479k) Net assets 137 ($549k)2023 Revenue 148 ($585k) Expenses 136 ($532k) Net assets 151 ($603k)2024 Revenue 138 ($544k) Expenses 137 ($535k) Net assets 153 ($612k)2025 Revenue 145 ($573k) Expenses 146 ($568k) Net assets 154 ($617k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (145)Expenses (146)Net assets (154)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 2020 to 2021, from $480k to $586k (+22%).

$480k
$586k
$649k
$705k
$720k
$726k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’20
$88k
’21
$60k
’22
$54k
’23
$9k
’24
$5k
’25
8.7
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.

Board chair

Bart Doyle

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed7108889
Joined·+3+0+4+2+1
No longer listed·02420
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $822.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP’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

FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP.

50%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 72% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 71% · 2023 97% — 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.

Where its funders are

68% of FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

MD
NC

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 1%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

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 FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP?
FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,522 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,522 in grants to FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOOTHILL CREATIVE ARTS GROUP 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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