California · Nonprofit
TASTE OF TALENT
TASTE OF TALENT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($63,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Taste of Talent does
Mission
The specific purpose of Taste of Talent is to preserve and promote the live performing arts, to educate audiences about the historical roots, cultural relevance, and connective power of music and art, to promote musical and cultural diversity in the performing arts industry, and to promote entrepreneurial empowerment of and growth opportunities for emerging artists.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2023, Taste of Talent made remarkable strides in advancing its mission to showcase the transformative power of music and art through innovative cultural programs and immersive, multi-sensory experiences. This year, our focus was on fostering community connections and promoting entrepreneurial empowerment among artists. By curating three flagship programsopera aloha, jive (jewish innovative voices and experiences), and a taste of mxicowe not only celebrated cultural diversity but also positioned ourselves for future growth, grant opportunities, and increased community support.opera aloha took center stage in 2023, celebrating the diverse musical traditions of hawaii through global opera talent and personal stories. The program made its debut at the kahilu theater on the big island, featuring a stellar lineup including korean-american mezzo-soprano alice chung, american countertenor aryeh nussbaum cohen, and mexican-american baritone efran solis, under the mentorship of native hawaiian tenor renson madarang. We closed the year with a holiday concert featuring samoan-new zealand tenor pene pati, bringing together the samoan community development center and youth from the asian…
$156,463 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $156,463.
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 2023 to 2024, from $35k to $60k (+72%).
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.
68% of TASTE OF TALENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ron Michael-Greenberg
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $21k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TASTE OF TALENT’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
TASTE OF TALENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TASTE OF TALENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 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
100% of TASTE OF TALENT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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
TASTE OF TALENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TASTE OF TALENT
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.
Public support
63%
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 TASTE OF TALENT: 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 TASTE OF TALENT?
- TASTE OF TALENT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($63,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TASTE OF TALENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $93,350 in grants to TASTE OF TALENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TASTE OF TALENT?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $63,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TASTE OF TALENT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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