California · Nonprofit
Pulse Arts Inc
Pulse Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,457 to it, the largest being NLT FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $-433
What Pulse Arts Inc does
Mission
To promote arts in schools
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
LAUSD - This year we served 9 schools and approximately 5,500 students and 4 parent communities. Weve been responding to the school community needs and district priorities and offered more parent engagement activities through art. This increases parent support extends to student participation.
$165,279 spent78% of program spendingLA County - We did a toy distribution for 600 high school students at Diego Rivera Learning Complex in Unincorporated LA for the holidays. We also provided free weekly art programs to Angeles Mesa Elementary for their students with disabilities in partnership with Otis School of Art and Design and the program culminated with a field trip to The Music Center for the Very Special Arts Festival.
$12,252 spent6% of program spendingLA Promise Fund - We expanded our programming support for the Girls Build program to include 2 program retreats that supported 6 middle and high schools, virtual programming that supported 20 schools in LA County, virtual awards ceremony, and in school programing for the 24-25 school year.
$19,130 spent9% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 15,333, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Play Equity - We provided African Drum and Dance workshops and assemblies to West Athens Elementary, Baldwin Hills Elementary, and Venice High School as a form of art therapy. This is agrant that makes play and sport accessible to all communities.
$15,333 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,994.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $76k to $975 (−99%).
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 90% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Pulse Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Chief executive
Keysha Bayness
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $41 → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Pulse Arts Inc’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
Pulse Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 Pulse Arts Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
Pulse Arts Inc draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
Pulse Arts Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pulse Arts Inc
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
100% 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 Pulse Arts Inc: 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 Pulse Arts Inc?
- Pulse Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,457 to it, the largest being NLT FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pulse Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,457 in grants to Pulse Arts Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pulse Arts Inc?
- NLT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pulse Arts Inc 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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