California · Nonprofit
PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH
PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,244 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($195,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $876k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach does
Mission
The arts council for long beach cultivates the physical, social and economic characteristics of long beach neighborhoods by nurturing and enlivening the arts. We serve individuals, groups, and organizations through advocacy, arts education public art, and grant making within the city of long beach. We practice profound inclusion as a collaborator and convener for the benefit of all communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants department awards excellence in the arts through our annual and monthly grant programs.
$2,564,734 spentof which $2,179,060 as grants88% of program spendingPublic art department transforms the city of long beach through public art installations.
$202,843 spent7% of program spendingArts learning implements outstanding arts education programs: eye on design, jumpstart, go make something.
$154,035 spent$31,000 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,921,612.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $6.3M (+331%).
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: 2018 72% · 2019 77% · 2020 64% · 2021 89% · 2022 95% · 2023 90% · 2024 91% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 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
Griselda Suarez
Executive director
Board chair
Anne Lattime
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $70k → $170k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH’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
PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
41% 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 PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% — 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
50% of PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH's funders are still giving 3 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
96% of PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k 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
PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH
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
83% 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 PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH: 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 PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,244 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($195,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $876,244 in grants to PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $195,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH 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.
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 17 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