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Genesis Inspiration Foundation

Genesis Inspiration Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,264,085 to it, the largest being TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ($3,264,085). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$2.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Genesis Inspiration Foundation does

Mission

The Foundation invests in arts programming at the community level for youth, providing interactive experiences to support and enhance education experiences. Our goal is to harness the power of arts to fuel the next generation, to open doors to help them enhance their creativity and collaboration skills, improve their problem-solving and critical thinking ability, and increase their self-confidence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Awarded competitive grants to nonprofits with youth art education programs

    $3,854,223 spentof which $3,240,000 as grants$3,471,282 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,854,223.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 153 ($1.6M) Expenses 348 ($765k) Net assets 130 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.9M) Expenses 911 ($2.0M) Net assets 126 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 287 ($3.1M) Expenses 1469 ($3.2M) Net assets 121 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 324 ($3.5M) Expenses 1834 ($4.0M) Net assets 101 ($2.9M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (324)Expenses (1834)Net assets (101)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 $2.9M to $4.5M (+53%).

$2.9M
$4.5M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.1M
20202021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of Genesis Inspiration Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$850k
’20
$868k
’21
−$110k
’22
−$159k
’23
−$558k
’24
8.9
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

Walter Dawson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed106131115
Joined·+0+9+2+4
No longer listed·4240
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250k → $500k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Genesis Inspiration Foundation’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

100% of Genesis Inspiration Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Genesis Inspiration Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Genesis Inspiration Foundation

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Genesis Motor America · corp_trust
  • Hyundai Motor America · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Genesis Inspiration Foundation: 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 Genesis Inspiration Foundation?
Genesis Inspiration Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,264,085 to it, the largest being TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ($3,264,085). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Genesis Inspiration Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,264,085 in grants to Genesis Inspiration Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Genesis Inspiration Foundation?
TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,264,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Genesis Inspiration Foundation 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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