California · Nonprofit
FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS
FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Friction Performing Arts does
Mission
To promote and present classical and contemporary music through performances by or including Friction Quartet and its members; To commission, promote, and premiere new musical compositions that include string quartet; To record classical and contemporary music, and share those recordings with the public. The corporation may choose to participate in the sale of physical or digital albums of any such recordings when appropriate; To develop and present interactive educational and community outreach programming; and To engage in performance and instruction through residencies and masterclasses at educational institutions, festivals, conferences, and other applicable establishments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Friction Quartet presented four programs in a self presented concert series
$13,200 spent52% of program spendingFriction Quartet taught and performed at a residency at Walden School in New Hampshire
$6,400 spent25% of program spendingFriction Quartet performed on New Music Decanted Festival in Napa, CA
$6,000 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,600.
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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $41k (−17%).
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.
18% of FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRICTION PERFORMING 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.
Where its funders are
FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $29k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRICTION PERFORMING 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS: 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 FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS?
- FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $28,500 in grants to FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS?
- CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRICTION PERFORMING 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 1 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