California · Nonprofit
KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED
KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,916 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $289k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $264k
What Kearny Street Workshop Incorporated does
Mission
Ksw makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. Since 1972, ksw has nurtured the creative spirit, and offered an important platform for new voices to be heard -full statement on schedule o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Apature festival: apature is an annual, month-long multidisciplinary arts festival that showcases 75-80 emerging apa artists to an audience of nearly 1,000 in venues throughout san francisco. It draws diverse attendees from across the bay area, offering critical platforms for apa art that uplifts apa communities and, in today's political environment, contributes necessary voices to arts & culture.
$224,529 spentof which $33,000 as grants70% of program spendingInterdisciplinary writers lab: interdisciplinary writers lab was held in partnership with the asian art museum. For twelve weeks over the summer a cohort of 15 students moved through three different four-week courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
$29,053 spent9% of program spendingAva lab: ava lab is a program intended to mentor emerging apa visual artists rooted in ksw's organizational praxis of solidarity, renewal, futurity, and autonomy. Through a retreat and workshops led by artists and professional educators and curators a cohort of ten artists go through a six month program that ends with a three-week exhibition
$51,263 spent16% of program spendingAsian american virtual histories: asian american virtual histories is an intergenerational oral history project exploring the cultural impact of asian american arts activism in san francisco. Included the dreaming people's history exhibition at sfpl education: ksw's legacy is one built on teaching, sharing resources, and creating community in times of need. To continue this legacy, we are offering classes that teach skills, consider unique perspectives central to marginalized experiences, and are accessible. Through our education program, artists can participate in online classes to learn new skills and make new connections. Ksw presents: this bimonthly series showcases visual and performing artists at kearny street workshop's location at arc gallery in the south of market (soma) neighborhood of san francisco. Ksw presents is an opportunity for underserved communities to access art and creativity, and exploring intersections of race,gender, sexuality, ability, socioeconomic status, immigration status, and more. Each event features quality and culturally relevant art from a variety of disciplines (visual, performing, literary, etc.) created by emerging and established asian pacific…
$15,649 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,494.
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 2021 to 2022, from $167k to $374k (+124%).
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: 2020 67% · 2022 52% · 2023 34% · 2024 83% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $90k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED’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
KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
53% 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 KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 23% · 2023 39% — 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
67% of KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% 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
54% of KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED?
- KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,916 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $346,916 in grants to KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED?
- THE POETRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED 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 13 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