California · Nonprofit
SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,590 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($46,249). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $410k
What Spindrift School of Performing Arts does
Mission
To train and inspire students of all ages in the performing arts while instilling the qualities of confidence, self-discipline, creativity and respect for others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Camp training / productions: 3-week and one-week camps are held during the summer, for ages 4-18 in a total of 16-18 different camps for different age groups. All are performance-based. Spindrift produces 2 large-scale shows each year for advanced students with paid audiences in large venues. We produce 2 junior shows and 2-4 plays from beginning to advanced actors with the addition of "show in a box" with full productions on the road in public and private schools which are a 12- week program. All our productions have 3 - 10 or more performances.
$158,591 spent$333,096 earned by the program31% of program spendingClasses/lessons/special events Spindrift School of Performing Arts (sspa) offers private lessons and group classes in music, theatre, and dance at our facilities year-round. Private lessons are offered year-round with 170 students and 11 instructors in voice, piano, guitar, violin & cello. Dance, acting & musical theatre classes are offered on-site from august through june for ages 6 mo to 18. Dancers have a recital 2x a year and private music students also have recitals 2x a year. We also offer adult dance and improv classes in the evening.
$240,929 spent$320,225 earned by the program46% of program spendingResidencies: after-school, in-school, and outreach programs after-school - spindrift teaches after-school classes at every elementary school in the pacifica school district as well as several other schools on the coast and peninsula. All of our afterschool classes participate in the recitals. In-school - spindrift partners with several schools in the pacifica school district as well as private and public schools bearby to provide performing arts training to children as directed by the groups that bring us in (dance, theatre, music & musical theatre). Outreach - spindrift provides two programs to the students of sunset ridge elementary of psd free of charge to the school's families. Two semester- long programs serve students in grades 1-3 or grades 4-5. The class meets once per week and culminates in a performance for families that includes costumes, lights, and sets. At ingrid b. Lacy middle school, we provide a 10-week afterschool hip hop class free of charge to the school's students. Our outreach programs are funded by contributed income and are offset by agreement with psd to utilize school sites for our summer camps free of charge to spindrift.
$119,789 spent$305,722 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $519,309.
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 2020 to 2021, from $249k to $407k (+64%).
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 26% · 2021 40% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS’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
SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 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
33% of SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS'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
71% of SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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
SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS?
- SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,590 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($46,249). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $132,590 in grants to SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $46,249 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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