California · Nonprofit
Mandarins of Sacramento Inc
Mandarins of Sacramento Inc (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,307 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($91,427). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $-183054
What Mandarins of Sacramento Inc does
Mission
Our Mission Statement "Transforming Lives Through Performing Arts" is the goal in everything we do. We strive to promote good citizenship while learning personal and team-building skills through our many programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mandarins Music AcademyThe Mandarins Music Academy started with the idea of giving the gift of music to children in the Sacramento Region. It is a complete business system for providing music education for a large student population. The program conducts instrumental band classes that include woodwinds, brass and percussion. The music directors are Mandarins employees and are music education majors in college, recent graduates or local professional musicians. There are currently 40 staff members including the program directors, administrators, music directors and music advisors. The program has strategic relationships with the Elk Grove Unified School District, Gateway Community Charter Schools, and Alfred Music. Mandarins EntertainmentMandarins Entertainment is an all-inclusive professional performance ensemble that offers musical entertainment throughout the Greater Sacramento and Bay Area. Utilizing drum lines, brass ensembles, and dance troupes, Mandarins Entertainment performs annually for thousands of fans at events including Sacramento Kings games, NASCAR races, Sac Republic FC soccer matches, and former Oakland Raiders games. Additionally, Mandarins Entertainment provides…
$2,780,462 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,780,462.
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 2018 to 2019, from $488k to $1.9M (+298%).
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: 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Mandarins of Sacramento Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dr Daniel Fong
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathleen Davies
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $27k → $21k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Mandarins of Sacramento 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
Mandarins of Sacramento Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
77% 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 Mandarins of Sacramento Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 58% · 2019 63% · 2020 56% · 2021 92% · 2022 74% · 2023 95% — 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
40% of Mandarins of Sacramento Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
77% of Mandarins of Sacramento 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 $58k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Mandarins of Sacramento Inc has grown faster than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Mandarins of Sacramento 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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Mandarins of Sacramento 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 Mandarins of Sacramento Inc?
- Mandarins of Sacramento Inc (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,307 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($91,427). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mandarins of Sacramento Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $246,307 in grants to Mandarins of Sacramento Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mandarins of Sacramento Inc?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $91,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mandarins of Sacramento 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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