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School of Arts and Culture at Mhp

The mission of the school is to catalyze creativity and empower community.

$304k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$354kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $182,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $304,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $121,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEATRO VISION$35,000
MOSAIC AMERICA$35,000
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY$30,000
LOCAL COLOR$25,000
CHOPSTICKS ALLEY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
STARTING ARTS$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%MESSENGER EVENTS: $10k → 8%MOSAIC AMERICA: $50k → 8%JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE: $15k → 8%GIANT CREATIVE SERVICES: $8k → 8%STARTING ARTS: $8k → 8%CHOPSTICKS ALLEY: $20k → 8%MOSAIC AMERICA: $15k → 8%MOSAIC AMERICA: $35k → 8%HERO TENT: $6k → 8%CHOPSTICKS ALLEY ART: $8k → 8%POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACT: $10k → 8%CALPULLI TONALEHQUEH: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 5 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$303k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-24%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MA
    MOSAIC AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +138%
  • TV
    TEATRO VISION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $70k · revenue +10%
  • LC
    Local Color
    2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • FA
    FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • JA
    JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -25%
  • PA
    POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture
3
Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
5
Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas

Carnaval San Francisco cultivates and celebrates the diverse Latin American, Caribbean, and African roots of the Mission District and the San Francisco Bay Area. We accomplish our mission through dance, music, the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
7
Clarion Performing Arts Center

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the Asian American community in the Bay Area and beyond. We provide equitable access to our arts and cultural programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Api Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Oakland Asian Cultural Center builds vibrant communities through Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) arts and cultural programs that foster intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue, cultural identity, collaborations, and social…

Recreation & Sports
9
Curatus

The furthering and advancement of the arts.

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10
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
11
Works San Jose

Provide a community art and performance center to advance emerging artists and provide admission free exhibitions and free to very low admission events.

Arts & Culture
12
Ballet Afsaneh Art & Culture Society

Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teatro Vision; the most unlike its peers is Hero Tent. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOSAIC AMERICA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC AMERICATEATRO VISION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTEATRO VISIONCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY: $50,238 · Arts & CultureCASHION CULTURAL LEGACYChopsticks Alley Art: $28,000 · Arts & CultureChopsticks Alley ArtFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETYJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLocal Color: $55,000 · Community ImprovementLocal ColorHERO TENT: $6,000 · Community ImprovementHERO TENTIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual gr…POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACT: $10,000 · OtherPOSITIVE ALTE…GIANT CREATIVE SERVICES: $8,000 · OtherGIANT CREATIV…STARTING ARTS INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$283,238Community Improvement$61,000Other$48,000Youth Development$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOSAIC AMERICA: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTEATRO VISION: $70,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLocal Color: $55,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY: $50,238 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetChopsticks Alley Art: $28,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTARTING ARTS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERO TENT: $6,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley CreatesCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Creates · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization School of Arts and Culture at Mhp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from School of Arts and Culture at Mhp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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