California · Nonprofit
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,718,556 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($568,315). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $96k
What THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA does
Mission
Artworxla combats the high school dropout crisis by engaging students in a long-term, sequential arts program offering a pursuable life path that inspires them to stay in school, evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Producing arts workshops for approximately 750 Los Angeles area teenagers attending continuation high schools. Multidisciplinary workshops include visual arts, media, design, performing arts, music, and creative writing.In the 202324 academic year, over 2,000 hours of programming took place in 30 classrooms across six school districts. As part of the advanced levels of the program, 62 after-school fellowships, summer scholarships and internships awarded.
$1,282,587 spentof which $3,000 as grants$597,126 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,282,587.
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 $531k to $138k (−74%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 12% · 2020 15% · 2021 36% · 2022 10% · 2023 25% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Sabrina K Garba
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 15 funders, grant income fell $667k → $381k.
6 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
26% 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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 27% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 2023 26% — 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
23% of THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
88% of THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $508k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$210k
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 THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: 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 H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA?
- THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,718,556 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($568,315). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,718,556 in grants to THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $568,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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