California · Nonprofit
The DIVA Foundation
The DIVA Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $308k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $367k
What The DIVA Foundation does
Mission
The DIVA Foundation improves health outcomes in underserved communities through arts-based programs that educate, empower, and raise awareness. Programs are offered year-round and focus on Health, Women and Girls, and Food Housing Security for vulnerable communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health Awareness Programming In 2025, The DIVA Foundation advanced its mission through community and media-based health initiatives. The Foundation produced and distributed DIVAS Simply Singing in its annual televised benefit concert raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and other health conditions, celebrated in its 35th anniversary year with a special Gala event. Additionally, the Foundation released and distributed Living Proof, a World AIDS Day special on Hulu highlighting the experiences of Black women living with HIV in the South. The program received a 2026 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding TV Journalism - Long Form.
$448,423 spent86% of program spendingCommunity Engagement Initiatives In 2025, The DIVA Foundation advanced its mission through a portfolio of community-centered initiatives spanning health, wellness, the arts, and global education. As a presenting sponsor of WalkGood LAs The People Pace, a 5K/10K run and walk held at the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Park in Baldwin Hills, the Foundation helped provide equitable healing and wellness resources to 718 participants drawn from 20 cities across Los Angeles County. The Foundation also hosted The DIVA Brunch, a community health activation held as part of the DIVAS Simply Singing 35th Anniversary Weekend, conveneing 320 attendees for HIV prevention education, lived-experience storytelling, and open dialogue around health equity. Additionally, the Foundation awarded an arts grant supporting a staged reading with music for the 50th anniversary revival of the Broadway musical Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With God, honoring cast members lost to HIV/AIDS and other illnesses while benefiting community organizationos through scheduled benefit performances.
$44,800 spent9% of program spendingEducational Grants In 2025, The DIVA Foundation advanced its mission through direct investement in education and community leadership development. The Foundation awarded Better Brothers Los Angeles BBLA a 30,000 educational grant supporting the organizations programs serving underserved and marginalized communities in Los Angeles. The Foundation also co-presented the 11th Annual Truth Awards, a recognition program celebrating achievement and excellence among community leaders, artists, and advocates, which served as a platform for elevating scholarship recipients and highlighting BBLAs broader commitment to advancing educational access and opportunity.
$30,000 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $523,223.
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 2023 to 2024, from $202k to $609k (+201%).
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.
100% of The DIVA Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sheryl Lee Ralph
President CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $20k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 DIVA Foundation’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
The DIVA Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 DIVA Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
The DIVA Foundation draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
The DIVA Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The DIVA Foundation
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
95% 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 The DIVA Foundation: 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 DIVA Foundation?
- The DIVA Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The DIVA Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,000 in grants to The DIVA Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The DIVA Foundation?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The DIVA Foundation 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.
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 4 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