California · Nonprofit
THE ART OF ELYSIUM
THE ART OF ELYSIUM (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,538 to it, the largest being The Offield Family Foundation ($729,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $-1688341
What The Art of Elysium does
Mission
We empower artists and communities of need to join together and emotionally triumph over their circumstances through art.The Art of Elysium is an artist organization built on the idea that through service, art becomes a catalyst for social change. Our full circle approach rewards altruistic creativity by giving back to artists who share their gifts with those in need. Artists volunteer. We support our artists. Through service, our creative communities thrive. We pair volunteer artists with communities in Los Angeles to support individuals in the midst of difficult emotional life challenges like illness, hospitalization, displacement, confinement, and/or crisis. We serve medically fragile children, teens, adults, seniors, those dealing with social, emotional and mental health issues, and the homeless.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Weekly tailor-made workshops in 4 disciplines (fashion & design, film & theatre, music & movement, visual arts) serving medically fragile children, teens, adults, seniors, those dealing with social, emotional and mental health issues and the homeless. Programs showcase volunteer artists and the communities served. The Art of Elysium also offers a selection of arts-based support programs and resources to help young people cope with the many psychosocial challenges that can accompany illness, chronic medical conditions, and the challenges of economic insecurity.
$917,504 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $917,504.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.4M to $1.5M (−80%).
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 3% · 2021 32% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of THE ART OF ELYSIUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Kelsey Lee Offield
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $124k → $286k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THE ART OF ELYSIUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
THE ART OF ELYSIUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
30% 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 THE ART OF ELYSIUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 55% · 2019 31% · 2020 54% · 2021 74% · 2022 53% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of THE ART OF ELYSIUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
THE ART OF ELYSIUM draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $478k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE ART OF ELYSIUM's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ART OF ELYSIUM
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ART OF ELYSIUM: 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 THE ART OF ELYSIUM?
- THE ART OF ELYSIUM (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,538 to it, the largest being The Offield Family Foundation ($729,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ART OF ELYSIUM have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,378,538 in grants to THE ART OF ELYSIUM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ART OF ELYSIUM?
- The Offield Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $729,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ART OF ELYSIUM 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 47 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