California · Nonprofit
KLEZCALIFORNIA INC
KLEZCALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,597 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,976). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Klezcalifornia Inc does
Mission
Education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supports "KLEZCADIA, A Safer Shtetl for Klezmer Music & Yiddish Culture," a fully-hybrid festival and learning retreat that prioritizes the safe experience of immunocompromised and medically high-risk participants held in Victoria, Canada. U.S. Friends of KLEZCADIA pays the U.S. expenses of the event and a $20,000 grant to Congregation Emanuel, which hosts the Festival. The inaugural season was June 4-9, 2024 in Victoria, Canada, and served over 300 in-person participants, as well as 487 virtual attendees in 14 countries.
$50,084 spentof which $20,000 as grants74% of program spendingThe Yiddish Culture Fund provides grants twice a year to projects that help develop the next generation of Yiddish culture leaders and producers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Seven grants totaling $11,090 were awarded in 2024.
$13,660 spentof which $11,090 as grants20% of program spendingYiddish Theatre Ensemble (YTE), a fiscally-sponsored project. Produces plays and musicals from the rich, rarely performed Yiddish theatre repertory as well as new and original works by living artists. In 2024, YTE hosted a series of informal private readings of plays by contemporary playwrights including The Last Yiddish Speaker and Yiddish literature translated into English, to explore these plays for possible future production.
$2,787 spent4% of program spendingOther programs: Produced eleven online Yiddish conversation Salons. Co-presented and publicized dozens of events presented by other groups. Updated and continued to add content to website to connect individuals and communities to Yiddish culture. Published ten newsletters to 2,700 subscribers. Provided fiscal sponsorship for six projects.
$1,352 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,883.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $41k to $109k (+168%).
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.
90% of KLEZCALIFORNIA INC’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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Judith Kunofsky
Treasurer and Acting Executive Director
Board chair
Dmitri Gaskin
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $17k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 KLEZCALIFORNIA INC’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
KLEZCALIFORNIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
100% 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 KLEZCALIFORNIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 69% — 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
100% of KLEZCALIFORNIA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k 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
KLEZCALIFORNIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KLEZCALIFORNIA 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.
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 KLEZCALIFORNIA 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 KLEZCALIFORNIA INC?
- KLEZCALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,597 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,976). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KLEZCALIFORNIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $204,597 in grants to KLEZCALIFORNIA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KLEZCALIFORNIA INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KLEZCALIFORNIA 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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