California · Nonprofit
The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture
The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,106 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($142,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $283k
- Net assets
- $121k
What The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture does
Mission
Ghiberti Center for Culture directly produces The Forum, a live program designed to foster civil conversation on complex issues; the annual artist in residence program, in which an artist creates new work inspired by Grace Cathedral; several art exhibits throughout the year, often with social justice themes; and a summer solstice concert which celebrates beautiful music in a beautiful space.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Artist in Residence:The Ghiberti Foundation is committed to new arts initiatives, as embodied by itsArtist in Resident program. The Ghiberti Foundation provides world class artistswith opportunities to create new works, allowing artists both a venue and a paidopportunity to create. Launched in 2012, artists in residence include playwrightand actress Anna Deavere Smith; visual artist Anne Patterson; light and soundartists Elaine Buckholtz and Floor van de Velde; video artists Jim Campbell andBenjamin Bergery (their installation, entitled "Jacob's Dream: A Luminous Path,"is still on view in the cathedral); spoken word poet Sarah Kay; visual artistSukey Bryan (one of her works, The Great Hawk Mobile, is still on view at theCathedral School for Boys); internationally-celebrated choreographer Alonzo King; New York and Paris-based participatory installation artist Lee Mingwei; and in 2024, hula master Patrick Makuakane.Art Exhibits at Grace Cathedral:The Ghiberti Foundation produces art exhibits and accompanying programs at various times throughout the year, with the intent of offering a variety of ways to experience art at Grace Cathedral. Ongoing and past exhibits include Unearthed by…
$157,926 spentof which $50,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $157,926.
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 2020 to 2021, from $293k to $164k (−44%).
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.
88% of The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $39k → $77k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture’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 Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 59% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 52% — 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
25% of The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
73% of The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture'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. Of the $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture's revenue fell 76% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture?
- The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,106 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($142,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $283,106 in grants to The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $142,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture 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 8 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