California · Nonprofit
GRAND PERFORMANCES
GRAND PERFORMANCES (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,031,047 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($606,900). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Grand Performances does
Mission
Grand Performances' mission is to inspire community, celebrate diversity, and unite los angeles through free access to global performing arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Grand Performances (gp) expanded year-round programming, deepened community partnerships, and strengthened its operational systems in preparation for its 40th anniversary in 2026. The organization's key accomplishments in 2024 include:programming and attendance:- presented 30+ live performances and community events across music, poetry, dance, and film.- welcomed over 25,000 in-person attendees to california plaza, a 200% increase from pre-pandemic levels.- expanded programming into spring and fall seasons, beyond gp's traditional summer series.- curated new formats including classical and poetry showcases, on-site culinary experiences, and interactive cultural conversations.community engagement:- partnered with pauly's project and hello stranger for a community sock and underwear drive supporting unhoused neighbors.- collaborated with omni hotel los angeles to introduce culturally themed on-site dining reflecting the artists' backgrounds.- continued partnerships with chirla, ed trust west, aarp, kcrw and others to extend gp's reach across los angeles county.- strengthened relationships with local artists, youth performers, and vendors, emphasizing paid opportunities and…
$1,605,505 spent$1,570,794 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,605,505.
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 2019 to 2020, from $630k to $1.5M (+134%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of GRAND PERFORMANCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Rafael Gonzalez
President and CEO
Board chair
Karla V Salazar
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $68k → $553k.
4 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GRAND PERFORMANCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
GRAND PERFORMANCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 GRAND PERFORMANCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 21% · 2019 37% · 2020 63% · 2021 95% · 2022 73% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of GRAND PERFORMANCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of GRAND PERFORMANCES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $633k 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
GRAND PERFORMANCES is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GRAND PERFORMANCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GRAND PERFORMANCES
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND PERFORMANCES: 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 GRAND PERFORMANCES?
- GRAND PERFORMANCES (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,031,047 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($606,900). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND PERFORMANCES have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,031,047 in grants to GRAND PERFORMANCES, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND PERFORMANCES?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $606,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND PERFORMANCES 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 38 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