California · Nonprofit
Frank Bette Center for the Arts
Frank Bette Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,492 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $366k
What Frank Bette Center for the Arts does
Mission
community art center/promotion of arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Plein Air Paintout: Annual community event with 50 artists from across the country paint in Alameda and the Bay, Area, culminating with an art exhibit at the local shopping center with music and art demonstrations and awards. Community Paint Day allows community to participate alongside professional artists.
$36,347 spent43% of program spendingAlameda on Camera: Annual event where 60 photographers, including high school students randomly select a part of Alameda to photograph over a 48 hour period, then creatively display a selection of their work.. Awards are given out and artists are paid a % of any sales.
$4,848 spent6% of program spendingZocatlan Mosaic Project: A grant was awarded to a town i Zocatlan, Mexico to install various mosaics throughout the town. This has improved the economy of this impoverished village by giving work to artists and increasing tourism to the town.
$6,006 spentof which $6,000 as grants7% of program spendingEducational Programs: Provide classes in various art media, teaching approximately 320 members of the community. Instructors are compensated for their efforts.
$27,656 spent33% of program spendingArt Exhibits: Open call for art three times each year allowing community artists to display and sell their work. Individual or group show six times each year for members to display and sell their work. Receptions are held each month open to the general public. Artists are compensated for any sales.
$9,545 spent11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $432k to $474k (+10%).
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.
53% of Frank Bette Center for the Arts’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Margaret Fago
President and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $101.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Frank Bette Center for the Arts’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
Frank Bette Center for the Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Frank Bette Center for the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of Frank Bette Center for the Arts'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Against its field
Frank Bette Center for the Arts runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Frank Bette Center for the Arts
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Frank Bette Center for the Arts?
- Frank Bette Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,492 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Frank Bette Center for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $19,492 in grants to Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Frank Bette Center for the Arts?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Frank Bette Center for the Arts 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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