California · Nonprofit
MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES
MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,300,536 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($2,008,256). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $755k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $140k
What Music Arts and Community Los Angeles does
Mission
The mission of Music Arts and Community Los Angeles (mac la), formerly known as friends of levitt pavilion - city of angels (levitt la) is to make live music accessible to all, creating stronger and more connected communities, creating opportunities in the creative economy while celebrating the diversity of our city and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 mac la offered a hybrid season consisting of 10 in-person concerts at macarthur park that are also livestreamed, and four pop-up concerts in collaboration with partner organizations across los angeles such as the sidewalk project, pasadena job center, a macarthur park community clean up, and the goethe-institut los angeles. It is an opportunity to create new pathways of access, and it allowed for a deepening of community partnerships. Creating paid opportunities in the arts was also a goal for both performers and seasonal staff. The concerts and pop-ups promoted social cohesion in moderated settings after a period of stress, uncertainty, and loss. Bringing joy, hope, and unity through music to many. Levitt la also offered a workforce development opportunity where the organization faciliated acccess to jobs in the creative economy.
$689,603 spent$30,865 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $689,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $32k to $230k (+614%).
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 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 12% · 2024 16% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Allegra Padilla
Executive director
Board chair
Kacey Bonner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $328k → $535k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES’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
MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% — 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
43% of MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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
100% of MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k 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
MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: 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 MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES?
- MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,300,536 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($2,008,256). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,300,536 in grants to MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES?
- MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,008,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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