California · Nonprofit
HELIX COLLECTIVE
HELIX COLLECTIVE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,872 to it, the largest being Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts ($27,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Helix Collective does
Mission
Education and performance of classical and other forms of music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Game Jams: A concert of video game music in West Hollywood and Burbank supported by a grants from the cities sponsors and ticket sales. This concert included 10 musicians conductor video of game play and technical experts to support the performance and preparation of the video with live music. Approximately 250 audience members of all ages including family groups attended the concerts.
$21,422 spentof which $19,700 as grants40% of program spendingClick Clack Moosic: Series of educational concerts in the Spring of 2025 for children ages 3-7 based on the Click Clack Moo books with original music written by the ensemble music director. Performance included 10 musicians conductor and narrator. The series included 7 performances and reached approximately 700 children and families. 400 children attended as a free event through their school educational program during the school day. This program was supported by a grant from the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and from a performance fee and in-kind donations of staffing by Boston Court Pasadena.
$11,237 spentof which $9,000 as grants21% of program spendingCue Connection - concert of original works by American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers members performed by 10 musicians and conductor of Helix Collective at the Bandrika Studio in Los Angeles supported by a grant from the City of Los Angeles sponsor support and ticket sales.
$10,200 spentof which $4,810 as grants19% of program spendingVarious live performances workshops and recordings in the Los Angeles area including a collaboration with SAG Indie and the Swing Sing Swing and L.A. Stories concerts.
$10,761 spentof which $5,400 as grants20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,620.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $77k to $134k (+74%).
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.
89% of HELIX COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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
Phillip Popham
Executive Director
Board chair
Sarah Robinson
Chair of Board and Flutist
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $36 → $9k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HELIX COLLECTIVE’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
HELIX COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 HELIX COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of HELIX COLLECTIVE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HELIX COLLECTIVE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HELIX COLLECTIVE
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
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELIX COLLECTIVE: 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 HELIX COLLECTIVE?
- HELIX COLLECTIVE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,872 to it, the largest being Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts ($27,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELIX COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $37,872 in grants to HELIX COLLECTIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELIX COLLECTIVE?
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELIX COLLECTIVE 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 3 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