California · Nonprofit
TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS
TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,075 to it, the largest being SERVICE STATION FOUNDATION F/K/A THE CHERNIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Transformative Arts does
Mission
Invite artists in residence to build visual literacy thorugh community engagement and art making.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Vanessa german: the artist channels 33 intimate technologies of soul opening november 18, 2021 through january 31, 2022. The artist channels 33 intimate technologies of soul
$48,458 spent$48,895 earned by the program12% of program spendingJune edmonds and kori newkirk artist residencies please join Transformative Arts in celebrating june edmonds first major monoprint collection entitled june haul and made in collaboration with master printer francesco siqueiros at el nopal press. June haul focuses on two ideas - edmonds' masterful color making and the iconography of her practice. In the prints made during her residency, she rearticulates her eye/portal symbol in intimate scale. Each monoprint contains this visual language in a unique color that edmonds created while the linocut was on the nopal press. In conversation with Transformative Arts founder jill moniz and nopal's siqueiros about emotion, textual and light, edmonds added color to each run on the press, creating over 100 art works. Newkirk's glittering faces and ashy ankles honors Transformative Arts' downtown los angeles neighborhood using materials from our neighbors in the toy and fashion districts. Newkirk explores new and old ideas from his oeuvre including his antenna series signifying the analog connections in jeopardy in the digital age. His use of plastic utensils and socks distributed by the skid row housing trust speaks to the precarious nature of…
$22,500 spent$24,500 earned by the program6% of program spendingAdornment artifact highlights the african diasporic aesthetic lineages of ancient nubia in los angeles. Housed in five sites across the across the city: eastern projects in chinatown, band of vices gallery in west adams; baldwin hills crenshaw mall on crenshaw, Transformative Arts and the getty villa. Adornment artifact investigates memory, material and meaning through two distinct, yet integrated responses to the jewels of ancient nubia exhibition at the getty villa. Curated to include over 60 los angeles based (or trained) artists and with the inclusion of historic african art, adornment artifact offers approaches to the language, material and context of ancient nubia. Two videos were produced for the exhibition, all artists received 1000 honorarium, selected artists received materials support. All sites were celebrated with public openings, talks, performances, and documentation. An open call to the community produced over 300 unique artworks that were displayed then distributed to our skid row neighborhood.
$319,156 spent$361,942 earned by the program82% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $390,114.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $49k (−20%).
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: 2021 31% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30 → $55k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS’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
TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 55% — 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
61% of TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS
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
82% 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 TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS: 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 TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS?
- TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,075 to it, the largest being SERVICE STATION FOUNDATION F/K/A THE CHERNIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $140,075 in grants to TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS?
- SERVICE STATION FOUNDATION F/K/A THE CHERNIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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