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PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION

PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $664,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$665k
Net assets
$6.5M
6/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Pcpa Foundation a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation does

Mission

To provide financial support to the pacific conservatory of the performing arts (pcpa) at allan hancock joint community college district, established under the laws of the state of california to give scholarships to students and administer property for the benefit of the pcpa.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pcpa foundation endowment.

    $597,000 spent$757,300 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $597,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($459k) Expenses 100 ($259k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 87 ($401k) Expenses 93 ($240k) Net assets 105 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 58 ($265k) Expenses 85 ($219k) Net assets 107 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 44 ($201k) Expenses 78 ($202k) Net assets 107 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 111 ($510k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 124 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 389 ($1.8M) Expenses 106 ($276k) Net assets 151 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 233 ($1.1M) Expenses 220 ($570k) Net assets 179 ($5.2M)2024 Revenue 179 ($821k) Expenses 177 ($459k) Net assets 210 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 245 ($1.1M) Expenses 241 ($623k) Net assets 223 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (245)Expenses (241)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

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 $5.2M to $6.1M (+17%).

$2.9M
$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.6M
$4.4M
$5.2M
$6.1M
$6.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$200k
’17
$161k
’18
$46k
’19
−$761
’20
$250k
’21
$1.5M
’22
$498k
’23
$362k
’24
$499k
’25
4.5
months of
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.

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Listed171719171712121313
Joined·+0+2+1+0+3+2+2+1
No longer listed·00308211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $76k → $72k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’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

PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION.

30%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 73% · 2019 49% · 2020 61% · 2021 49% · 2022 64% · 2023 42% — 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.

Where its funders are

51% of PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION'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 $326k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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In California

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Allan Hancock College Auxiliary Program · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $664,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $664,950 in grants to PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION 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 6 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