California · Nonprofit
SIDE STREET PROJECTS
SIDE STREET PROJECTS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,258 to it, the largest being KATHRYN CAINE WANLASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($330,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $936k
What Side Street Projects does
Mission
Our mission is to give artists of all ages the ability and means to support their creative endeavors. We are devoted to community centered artists through community led programming that promotes creativity, well being, and the potential for collective growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
"the woodworking bus" teaches creative problem-solving through woodworking to students all over la county. Our 2nd-grade public art curriculum serves all 2nd graders in pusd. We design custom hands-on programming for specific communities in the public schools based on need and strategic alignment.
$442,586 spent$29,319 earned by the program93% of program spendingWe host artist projects at our temporary headquarters and off-site in collaboration with local businesses and government agencies. We provide support services to artists and neighbors with programs including skill share workshops and support with community events.
$34,941 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $477,527.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $504k to $967k (+92%).
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: 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% · 2024 21% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SIDE STREET PROJECTS’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 5 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
Emily Hopkins
Executive director
Board chair
Letitia Fernandez Ivins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $173k.
4 of 21 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 SIDE STREET PROJECTS’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
SIDE STREET PROJECTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
39% 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 SIDE STREET PROJECTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 26% · 2019 46% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 51% · 2023 32% — 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
25% of SIDE STREET PROJECTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
65% of SIDE STREET PROJECTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k 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
SIDE STREET PROJECTS runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like SIDE STREET PROJECTS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 SIDE STREET PROJECTS: 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 SIDE STREET PROJECTS?
- SIDE STREET PROJECTS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,258 to it, the largest being KATHRYN CAINE WANLASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($330,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIDE STREET PROJECTS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,368,258 in grants to SIDE STREET PROJECTS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIDE STREET PROJECTS?
- KATHRYN CAINE WANLASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIDE STREET PROJECTS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 21 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