California · Nonprofit
THE CRUCIBLE
THE CRUCIBLE (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,908,367 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($539,713). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $439k
What The Crucible does
Mission
A leader in the bay area arts community, The Crucible is widely recognized for its exceptional learning experiences, rich and varied arts programs, skilled and committed faculty, and unparalleled educational facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Studio: The Crucible helps to make the arts accessible by providing affordable studios, stalls and locker spaces to working artists. We developed The Crucible's expanded access to tools & equipment (create) program as a way for current and former students to benefit from broader access to the tools and resources of The Crucible.adults: The Crucible's mission is to inspire creative exploration and expression through welcoming, hands-on arts education and experiences for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. As an innovative hub built around the industrial arts, The Crucible is a catalyst for individual growth and vibrant community connections. The Crucible is dedicated to inspiring creative growth in oakland and the greater bay area, and our youth programs are a crucial part of that mission. This programming provided much-needed access to high-quality arts experiences for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. From blacksmithing to neon, glass casting, ceramics, welding, kinetics, and fire dancing. Students were able to experience classes that are designed to bring together novices as well as experienced artists and tradespeople to a noncompetitive, open environment where people…
$3,007,676 spent$1,758,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,007,676.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $3.9M (−18%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 27% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of THE CRUCIBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Douglas Yeiser
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $258k → $585k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CRUCIBLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 CRUCIBLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 CRUCIBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 32% · 2019 49% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 17% — 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
41% of THE CRUCIBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
74% of THE CRUCIBLE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 CRUCIBLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CRUCIBLE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CRUCIBLE: 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 CRUCIBLE?
- THE CRUCIBLE (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,908,367 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($539,713). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CRUCIBLE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $3,908,367 in grants to THE CRUCIBLE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CRUCIBLE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $539,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CRUCIBLE 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 60 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