California · Nonprofit
Project BLANK
Project BLANK (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,750 to it, the largest being The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $188k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Project BLANK does
Mission
Project [BLANK] is a San Diegobased nonprofit performing arts organization dedicated to producing innovative, interdisciplinary performances that challenge and expand the communitys relationship to art and music. Since 2019, we have provided a platform for local and national artists to create and perform experimental works that blur the boundaries between music, theater, and visual art. Our mission is to make contemporary performance more accessible and relevant by presenting bold, thought-provoking experiences that reflect the diversity and complexity of modern life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the 20232024 fiscal year, Project [BLANK] presented three major productions and multiple community events across San Diego, including our ongoing SALTY SERIES at Bread & Salt Gallery, which highlights new works by local artists and composers. We also launched Art Attack!our annual live art and fundraising eventbringing together dozens of artists, performers, and community members for a night of artmaking and celebration. During the 2024-2025 Season, Project [BLANK] produced PARK OPERA, a large-scale outdoor performance in Balboa Park supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and continued development on upcoming interdisciplinary projects involving video, movement, and experimental sound.Beyond performances, Project [BLANK] remains committed to community engagement and artist development. We provide paid opportunities for hundreds of local artists, supported collaborations with regional partners such as the Museum of Us and the Balboa Park Forever Foundation, and offered free or low-cost access to performances to ensure broad public participation. Through these activities, Project [BLANK] continues to foster a vibrant ecosystem for experimental art and music in…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $75k (+165%).
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: 2023 33% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Project BLANK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $92k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Project BLANK’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
Project BLANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% 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 Project BLANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
Project BLANK draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Project BLANK 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
Organizations like Project BLANK
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Project BLANK: 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 Project BLANK?
- Project BLANK (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,750 to it, the largest being The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project BLANK have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $187,750 in grants to Project BLANK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project BLANK?
- The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project BLANK 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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