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IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY

IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,125 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($582,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$148k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$833k
Net assets
$844k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey does

Mission

Performing Arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purposes of the organization is to create and present the interdisciplinary performance pieces rooted in African-American Music, Dance and Theatrical Traditions.

    $284,478 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $284,478.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($604k) Expenses 100 ($470k) Net assets 100 ($438k)2018 Revenue 65 ($394k) Expenses 78 ($365k) Net assets 107 ($467k)2019 Revenue 59 ($359k) Expenses 92 ($433k) Net assets 90 ($393k)2020 Revenue 96 ($579k) Expenses 75 ($351k) Net assets 142 ($621k)2021 Revenue 114 ($689k) Expenses 133 ($625k) Net assets 157 ($686k)2022 Revenue 123 ($742k) Expenses 113 ($532k) Net assets 194 ($848k)2023 Revenue 207 ($1.3M) Expenses 200 ($942k) Net assets 265 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 111 ($668k) Expenses 120 ($565k) Net assets 168 ($735k)2025 Revenue 25 ($148k) Expenses 66 ($310k) Net assets 193 ($844k)
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Revenue (25)Expenses (66)Net assets (193)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 2021 to 2022, from $686k to $1.1M (+63%).

$442k
$471k
$393k
$626k
$686k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.0M
$844k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 59% · 2019 29% · 2020 38% · 2021 72% · 2022 78% · 2023 70% · 2024 93% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$134k
’17
$29k
’18
−$74k
’19
$228k
’20
$65k
’21
$210k
’22
$310k
’23
$103k
’24
−$161k
’25
30
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.

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Listed866666333
Joined·+0+0+0+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·20020300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $80k → $208k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY’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

IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 99% · 2023 72% — 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.

Where its funders are

92% of IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA
DE

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−109% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve30.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY?
IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,125 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($582,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $833,125 in grants to IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY?
THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $582,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND CULTURAL ODYSSEY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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