California · Nonprofit
ACCION LATINA
ACCION LATINA (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,685 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($665,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $720k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $588k
What Accion Latina does
Mission
Our mission is to promote cultural arts, community media, and civic engagement to build healthy and empowered latino communities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Community media --el tecolote is the longest continuously published bilingual newspaper in california. We distribute 10,000 free copies every two weeks at more than 350 locations throughout the bay area where there are high concentrations of latinos. El tecolote is also published online at www.eltecolote.org. This year, we worked with more than 30 volunteer bay area community members and students from local universities to cover issues of gentrification and displacement, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, immigrant rights, and labor. In 2023, el tecolote earned 13 awards for excellence at the greater bay area journalism awards by the san francisco peninsula press club, and we celebrated our 53rd anniversary with a community gala.
$569,767 spentof which $34,200 as grants100% of program spendingIn march 2023, accin latina was recognized for its achievements as one of the yerba buena center for the arts 100 honorees. ------------------------------ encuentro del canto popular is our year-end concert: over 40 years in the making, this program is our second oldest project. ------------------------------ paseo artstico is a free, bilingual arts- activity, arts-stroll. The event features and recognizes artists who live or work in the mission district as well as those artists whose work reflects solidarity and a strong sense of cultural heritage. Artists present their work and multi disciplinary art- activities at various venues on calle 24/24th street corridor
Cultural arts - we hosted 15 cultural arts events and activities, hosted 4 gallery exhibitions, and 1 special event for an off site curation. Radio teco - we produced 21 online podcast episodes for radio teco news (formerly latina latino latinx news), a biweekly podcast focusing on all matters that affect our latino/a/x community and beyond; 12 online episodes of radio teco cultura ( formerly cultural news podcast), a monthly podcast that centers latinx cultural makers, for a total of 33 radio teco online podcast episodes. Raices artist residency: we welcomed our first raices artist-in-residence who created extra large comics based on el tecolote's '90s archive and presented an exhibition at our gallery and paseo artistico as well as a musical performance at our encuentro del canto popular.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $569,767.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $436k to $639k (+47%).
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: 2017 34% · 2018 31% · 2019 42% · 2020 15% · 2021 35% · 2022 16% · 2023 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of ACCION LATINA’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. 3 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $303k → $256k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ACCION LATINA’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
ACCION LATINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 ACCION LATINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 33% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
18% of ACCION LATINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACCION LATINA draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k 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
ACCION LATINA has grown faster than half of the 17,179 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,179 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like ACCION LATINA
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
78% 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 ACCION LATINA: 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 ACCION LATINA?
- ACCION LATINA (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,685 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($665,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCION LATINA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,190,685 in grants to ACCION LATINA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCION LATINA?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $665,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCION LATINA 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing