California · Nonprofit
GENERATIVE SOMATICS
GENERATIVE SOMATICS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,711,112 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($750,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $257k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $411k
What Generative Somatics does
Mission
To grow transformative social and environmental justice movements. One that integrates personal and social transformation and creates compelling alternatives to the status quo.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To support social and environmental justice movements in a year of intense organizing, in 2024 GS increased free/donation-based and accessible offerings for movement leaders, organizers, cultural workers, and politicized healers. In 2024, GS continued to offer daily practice space for the 3rd year in a row. GS daily practice space is led by BIPOC practitioners every week day (251 days) for 30 minutes. 40 - 70 new people register for daily practice space every month. In 2024, GS launched monthly regional in-person practice spaces in 3 key organizing cities - Durham, Los Angeles, and Oakland. Each practice space is led by 2-3 practitioners and is attended monthly by over 25 local organizers, healers, and cultural workers as a space for their own healing and transformation and to connect to others and build relationships. Additionally, GS offered a dozen online somatic groups for healing for organizers. These were attended by 40-70 people each. In 2024, GS also invested in the training and development of practitioners so that they were better resourced to serve movements and movement leaders, this included over a 176 hours of lead teachership training with an in-person multi-day…
$125,484 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $125,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $541k to $1.1M (+111%).
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.
100% of GENERATIVE SOMATICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Brooke Stepp
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $321k → $265k.
15 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 GENERATIVE SOMATICS’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
GENERATIVE SOMATICS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 GENERATIVE SOMATICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 28% · 2019 33% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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
32% of GENERATIVE SOMATICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
54% of GENERATIVE SOMATICS'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
GENERATIVE SOMATICS is better cushioned than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GENERATIVE SOMATICS
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
27% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENERATIVE SOMATICS: 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 GENERATIVE SOMATICS?
- GENERATIVE SOMATICS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,711,112 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($750,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GENERATIVE SOMATICS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,711,112 in grants to GENERATIVE SOMATICS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENERATIVE SOMATICS?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENERATIVE SOMATICS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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