California · Nonprofit
PUBLIC GLASS
PUBLIC GLASS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,111 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($165,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $642k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Public Glass does
Mission
Public Glass is a studio formed to meet the needs of Bay Area artists working in hot glass and students interested in glass art.Continued on Schedule O
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Glass offers a variety of classes that will ignite your creative path with glass! We combine hands-on learning with small class sizes & professional instruction so that you can truly experience the medium no matter which glass making process you choose.
$308,543 spent$245,600 earned by the program55% of program spendingPublic Glass holds numerous events throughout the year in an effort to spread the word about its mission. One of these events, held only once a year, consists of artists from the community performing glass blowing demonstrations. The public is invited to watch the demonstration. This allows students, artists and all others interested in the art of glass to come and learn about Public Glass and glass blowing.
$154,197 spent$130,436 earned by the program27% of program spendingPublic Glass offers the use of glass studio equipment to artists in the community. Revenue is generated from rentals of blow slots for glass blowers, usage of various equipment and studio space, and various other purposes.
$99,132 spent$113,832 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $561,872.
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 2021 to 2022, from $271k to $325k (+20%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 14% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of PUBLIC GLASS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $24k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 GLASS’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 GLASS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 GLASS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 82% · 2019 63% · 2020 43% · 2021 99% · 2022 63% · 2023 70% — 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
29% of PUBLIC GLASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
69% of PUBLIC GLASS'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 $98k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 GLASS receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $315k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC GLASS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 GLASS: 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 GLASS?
- PUBLIC GLASS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,111 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($165,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUBLIC GLASS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $315,111 in grants to PUBLIC GLASS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC GLASS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC GLASS 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 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