Public Charity

Alliance for California Traditional Arts

Alliance for California Traditional Arts is a Public Charity headquartered in FRESNO, CA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $3.5M revenue, $5.6M expenses, $6.6M total assets. 5 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $589K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 020541202 FRESNO, CA Arts & Culture NTEE: A20 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$3.5M
Total Expenses$5.6M
Total Assets$6.6M
Grant Records5
Funding Total$589K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

ACTA's mission is to ensure that California's future holds California's past. ACTA promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now and into the future by providing advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and traditional artists.

Where $100 goes at Alliance for California Traditional Arts

How Alliance for California Traditional Arts divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$83 Programs the work itself
$12 Management running the organization
$5 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $83 for programs

$56
Various programs supporting the cultivation and growth of traditional arts and culture through stewardship in tending and nurturing California's unique cultural landscape; services to artists; and connecting people…
67% of program spending
$11
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation CARES program leverages ACTA's long and deep experience of our existing programming inside correctional facilities to combine specific artists, art forms,and…
14% of program spending
$11
Cultivate a better California for all by working directly with artists and culture bearers and their communities in the folk and traditional arts field by providing direct grants…
13% of program spending

Plus 1 more program. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.

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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Executive Dir. Amy Kitchener
Secretary Carly Tex
Board President Chike Nwoffiah
VP Finance/Admi Daniel Sheehy Phd
Director Devendra Sharma
Director Jennifer Bates

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Health & Medicine
$450,000 1 grant
Mental Health & Substance Abuse
$92,914 1 grant
General Support
$35,800 2 grants
Arts & Culture
$10,000 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $3.5M $5.6M $6.6M
2024 $3.1M $4.4M $9.2M
2023 $7.9M $2.3M $9.3M
2022 $4.4M $2.9M $3.6M
2021 $4.7M $4.0M $2.6M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $4.7M to $3.5M (-27%), with total assets most recently reported at $6.6M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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