California · Nonprofit
MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,935 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($292,755). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $802k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Mystic Arts Foundation does
Mission
To bring interactive and immersive art experiences to the public in the united states and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Participated in BM Regional Event Love Burn with more than 5,000 attendees by deploying the interactive and immersive art project, Time Travel Lounge, and producing a theme camp featuring educational Speaker's Series and DJ performances. Participated in the Burning Man Event with more than 70,000 attendees by fiscal sponsoring the major art project Temple of Together, deploying the interactive and immersive mobile vehicle art project, Mystic Flyer Experience, presenting large-scale stage performance Myth Opera of Ascending Dreams, and providing grant support to the immersive art projects Crystallization Code Gateway Orgon Chamber, Shakti Chakra Shrine, Nova Lua Brazilian Music Project, fire performance workshops, and producing a theme camp featuring educational Speaker''s Series and performances. Provided fiscal sponsorship to the off-Broadway play Duality.
$1,076,376 spentof which $28,609 as grants$889,920 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,076,376.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $67k to $98k (+46%).
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.
18% of MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
11 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION’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
MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
89% of MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION'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 $88k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $714k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION?
- MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,935 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($292,755). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $801,935 in grants to MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $292,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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