California · Nonprofit
LA River Public Art Project
LA River Public Art Project (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,500 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $124k
- Net assets
- $80k
What LA River Public Art Project does
Mission
Our organization provides public arts and culture programming and advocacy along the 51 mile length of the Los Angeles River. We provide cultural programming and education in community focused events with artists. Mission: We reimagine the LA River as a dynamic and vibrant landscape. Through innovative art installations and programs, we connect communities with the river, sparking dialogue, igniting creativity, and transforming the river into a shared public space.Vision: The LA River is a beloved public place where art enhances the quality of life for all. The river is a powerful force that shapes our past, present, and future, inspiring our shared cultures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
River Sessions: Ongoing creative site visits led by artists and indigenous culture bearers at different locations along the LA River. Program Services Description 2025 During 2025, LA River Arts carried out its exempt purpose primarily through its River Sessions public programming series. River Sessions advances the organizations charitable mission to expand equitable access to arts and cultural programming along the Los Angeles River and to activate underutilized public spaces through site-responsive creative work. During the year, the organization: Produced 7 public River Sessions events Activated 6 river-adjacent locations across Los Angeles and Maywood Engaged approximately 160 participants Presented or commissioned 10 artists and collaborators Partnered with community-based organizations including BiciCrfono, LA Poet Society, MRCA, FoLAR, Forager Crafts, Metabolic Studio, and Shatto Gallery Programming included poetry rides, cultural heritage activations, artist-led workshops and discussions, LGBTQ+ performance and storytelling events, public exhibitions, and preservation/access tours. All events were free and open to the public. These activities furthered the organizations…
$59,885 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,885.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $91k to $84k (−8%).
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.
87% of LA River Public Art Project’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $89k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 LA River Public Art Project’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
LA River Public Art Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 LA River Public Art Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 56% — 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 LA River Public Art Project's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
LA River Public Art Project has grown faster than half 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
Government funding LA River Public Art Project receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 LA River Public Art Project
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
90%
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 LA River Public Art Project: 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 LA River Public Art Project?
- LA River Public Art Project (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,500 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA River Public Art Project have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $123,500 in grants to LA River Public Art Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA River Public Art Project?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA River Public Art Project 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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