California · Nonprofit
TEAPOT GARDENS
TEAPOT GARDENS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,148 to it, the largest being VYUHA INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $260k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Teapot Gardens does
Mission
Teapot is a paradise garden that cultivates love of the outdoors as a catalyst for creativity, community healing, and co-creation by connection artists and intergenerational families in park-deprived neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teapot Gardens is a grassroots non-profit led by artists and activists to provide free experiential art education outdoors to foster creativity and mental health for south central los angeles. Our purpose is to create the first public persian garden in the west. An arena for artists to rejoice in nature, build community, and celebrate diveristy and talent.
Teapot Gardens is a grassroots non-profit led by artists and activists to provide free experiential art education outdoors to foster creativity and mental health for south central los angeles. Our purpose is to create the first public persian garden in the west. An arena for artists to rejoice in nature, build community, and celebrate diveristy and talent.
$230,754 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $230,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $78k to $76k (−3%).
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: 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TEAPOT GARDENS’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
TEAPOT GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 94% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
TEAPOT GARDENS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding TEAPOT GARDENS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 TEAPOT GARDENS
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
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 TEAPOT GARDENS: 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 TEAPOT GARDENS?
- TEAPOT GARDENS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,148 to it, the largest being VYUHA INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEAPOT GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,148 in grants to TEAPOT GARDENS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEAPOT GARDENS?
- VYUHA INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEAPOT GARDENS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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