California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,884,308 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($4,792,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Los Angeles Nomadic Division does
Mission
Land is a public art initiative committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects, in los angeles and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land commissions-each year land commissions approximately six new public artworks by emerging and established contemporary artists across los angeles. A cornerstone of land's work, these commissions serve as meaningful opportunities for artists to create art outside of the commercial considerations of a gallery and with greater flexibility not offered in museums, promoting long term engagement with a community. For many artists, these are their dream projects. Artists place their artworks directly in neighborhoods and sites that have personal resonance, and these projects often have a profound impact on their careers and future bodies of work. Land commissions in fy25 include new works by carlos agredano, lita albuquerque, vincent enrique hernandez, lizette hernandez, and daid roy, as well as ongoing commissions by khalil joseph and anna sew hoy.
$2,284,426 spent$20,285 earned by the program89% of program spendingLand programming-land programming is our most responsive series, creating opportunities for immediate public engagement and artist support. Throughout the year, land produces several free single-day events across los angeles. Examples of land programming in fy25 included: plant sale, readings: patricia iglesias peco, and the performance psychic body recalibration by fxr (fac xtra retreat).
$210,404 spent8% of program spendingHall of records-together with the los angeles county department of arts and culture's civic art division, land worked with artists teresa baker and felix quintana to develop new artworks that were responsive to the mission of the los angeles county department of regional planning and considers both the people and land that the organization represents and stewards. The artworks are installed at the los angeles county department of regional planning offices at the los angeles county hall of records in downtown los angeles. Both works are now part of the los angeles county art collection.
$73,605 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,568,435.
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 2023 to 2024, from $823k to $4.7M (+477%).
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 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Laura Hyatt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $24k → $975k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 39% · 2022 39% · 2023 46% — 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
36% of LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $611k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION
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
66%
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 LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION?
- LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,884,308 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($4,792,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $7,884,308 in grants to LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,792,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing