California · Nonprofit
LUX ART INSTITUTE
LUX ART INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,904,471 to it, the largest being LINDA BRANDES FOUNDATION ($1,039,670). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Lux Art Institute does
Mission
The Institute supports artists in development of new projects through a residency program and shares their discoveries with scholars, art patrons, and regional and national audience. The Institute also educates and engages the community to foster an appreciation of the living artist and creative process.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Education Program Lux provides educational resources both on and off campus. Our on-campus programming includes art classes and workshops that reach hundreds of students per year and focus on practices including Ceramics, Painting Drawing, Sculpture, Art History, and STEAM classes. Youth programs reach students age 4-18, while adults classes are for all ages 18. The Valise program is an off-campus program that brings museum quality art to schools in San Diego County to provide art enrichment through common core. The Aging Creatively program provides educational art tours and activities to seniors 55. Supplementary educational programs and events reach broader audiences through lectures, tours, demonstrations, and performances. Other programs includue Membership, Progam rentals,Art Gallery, Special Events, and Artist Residencies.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.6M to $6.0M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2020 13% · 2021 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $432k → $104.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 LUX ART INSTITUTE’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
LUX ART INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 61% · 2018 64% · 2019 76% · 2020 36% · 2021 51% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of LUX ART INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
96% of LUX ART INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $353k 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.
Government funding LUX ART INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $134k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$39k
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 LUX ART INSTITUTE
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 LUX ART INSTITUTE: 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 LUX ART INSTITUTE?
- LUX ART INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,904,471 to it, the largest being LINDA BRANDES FOUNDATION ($1,039,670). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUX ART INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,904,471 in grants to LUX ART INSTITUTE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUX ART INSTITUTE?
- LINDA BRANDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,039,670 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUX ART INSTITUTE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 20 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