California · Nonprofit
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,313,013 to it, the largest being WINDSONG TRUST ($4,800,000). 123 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $437M
What Skirball Cultural Center does
Mission
The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting guided by the jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the american democratic ideals of freedom and equality. We welcome people of all communities and generations to participate in cultural experiences that celebrate discovery and hope, foster human connections, and call upon us to help build a more just society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community gatherings: skirball serves as a venue for 400+ community organization, life cycle, and corporate events and celebrations.
$13,716,592 spent$7,114,018 earned by the program39% of program spendingMuseum: skirball protects and conserves 30,000 objects of judaic history and culture and present 7 to 10 exhibitions presenting jewish stories and american experiences to build a sense of shared humanity and appreciation for a plural society.
$9,009,778 spent$452,507 earned by the program26% of program spendingEducation: skirball offers k-12 school tours to its museum, arts education curriculum, and teacher trainings serving 40,000 local students free of charge. Adult education programs include book groups, docent led museum tours, applied arts classes, and lecture series.
$6,201,181 spent$622,441 earned by the program18% of program spendingPerformance, film, & literary arts: skirball present 50+ dance, music, film, lecture, and literary art programs, often free of charge.
$5,984,816 spent$199,432 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,912,367.
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 $440M to $394M (−10%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 44% · 2023 10% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Jessica Kornberg
President & CEO
Board chair
Philip De Toledo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $3.7M.
21 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 funders by total. 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
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
31% 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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 14% · 2023 27% — 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
54% of SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 56 funders to 80 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: 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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER?
- SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,313,013 to it, the largest being WINDSONG TRUST ($4,800,000). 123 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $34,313,013 in grants to SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER, 123 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER?
- WINDSONG TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 175 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing