California · Nonprofit
HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC
HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,364,047 to it, the largest being THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $523k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $78k
What Hip Hop for Change Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to build a sovereign organization that can produce hip hop at a level of authenticity and accessibility that the corporate industry cannot replicate. We uplift our most empowered voices in the hip hop and activist community, with the power and protection of our 501c3 status to create an economic base of self-determination, and take back the ownership of what hip hop truly means to the community it originates from.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hip hop education: our education has reached over 25,000 k-12 youth by using hip hop culture as a vehicle to empower our communities through its expression. We partner with state and local agencies, such as the city of oakland and the california arts council, to implement programs to secure platforms within our community to revive arts education in underserved bay area districts.
$362,195 spent$119,207 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,195.
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 2020 to 2021, from $187k to $676k (+262%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Marlon Richardson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $200k.
12 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC’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
HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 68% · 2019 60% · 2020 79% · 2021 37% · 2022 39% · 2023 25% — 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
25% of HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC: 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 HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC?
- HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,364,047 to it, the largest being THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,364,047 in grants to HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC?
- THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC 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