California · Nonprofit
THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION
THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,382,300 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND LULU ROBERTS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,911,520). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The Joy Culture Foundation does
Mission
The Joy Culture Foundation empowers chinese-speaking families to thrive by offering meaningful cultural programs, educational initiatives, community engagement opportunities, and a comprehensive chinese-language libruary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Joy Culture Foundation empowers chinese-speaking families to thrive by offering meaningful cultural programs, educational initiatives, community engagement opportunities, and a comprehensive chinese-language libruary.
$240,478 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $240,478.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+42%).
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: 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION’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. 0 of the last 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $542k → $1.5M.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 JOY CULTURE 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 JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 93% · 2022 70% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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 JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JOY CULTURE 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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 JOY CULTURE 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 JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION?
- THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,382,300 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND LULU ROBERTS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,911,520). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,382,300 in grants to THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION?
- THE ERIC AND LULU ROBERTS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,911,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JOY CULTURE 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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