#586of 1,000 in 2025

Illuminate the Arts

Location
San Francisco, California
Sector
Arts and culture
Founded
2011
Website
ILLUMINATE.ORG
331%Three-year growth, FY2022 to FY2025
$4.7MFY2025 revenue
2Employees, FY2025
#61of 107 in Arts and culture
#91of 160 in California

Revenue by fiscal year

FY2022: $1,098,589 $1.1M FY22 FY2023: $1,547,801 $1.5M FY23 FY2024: $7,351,178 $7.4M FY24 FY2025: $4,730,282 $4.7M FY25

We count pledges when the cash is received, not when they’re promised, so these numbers differ from Illuminate the Arts’s 990. How we count pledges

Where revenue came from, FY2025

Gifts and grants
$4.6M · 98%
Government grants
$103K · 2%
Program revenue
$3K · 0%
Total revenue on the 990
$2,730,382
Investment income
− $210,618
Pledge payments received this year, promised in an earlier year
+ $2,210,518
Revenue we count
$4,730,282

What it does

Illuminate rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art that, through awe, free humanity's better nature.

Illuminate maintains a wide variety of large scale public arts projects across san francisco, including the bay lights, the golden mile (in golden gate park), spectra at fulton plaza, grace light (at grace cathedral), welcome (on market street), and the illumination of the conservatory of flowers (in golden gate park). Illuminate also hosts laser illuminations across the city and hosts nearly 200 live, free music concerts each year at the golden gate bandshell (in golden gate park) and other venues.

Leadership

Benjamin DavisCEO
David HatfieldChief/Opport

EIN 45-3717224 · Full filings on ProPublica

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