California · Nonprofit
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,654,790 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($740,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem does
Mission
Since 1995, ArtEsteem's award-winning academic day and after school visual arts and extended arts programming cultivates creative, engaged, and successful children and youth through artistic, social-emotional, and academic standards based skills. The curriculum combines Attitudinal Healing Principles with culurally, academically, and environmentally relevant arts instruction. This culminates with an annual student art exhibition. ArtEsteem serves over 2,500 children at an average of fifteen Bay Area school sites during the fiscal year. A sample of the over twenty awards and recognitions include: 2024 Black History Month Commendation from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2019 Community Award from the Oakland Unidfited School District's Office of African American Male Achievement, 2016 Best Arts Nonprofit from the East Bay Express Best of the East Bay Arts & Culture Writers' Picks, 2012 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and 20
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 1995, AHC's award-winning ArtEsteem academic day and after school visual arts and extended arts programming cultivates creative, engaged, and successful children and youth through artistic, social-emotional, and academic standards based skills. The curriculum combines Attitudinal Healing Principles with culturally, academically, and environmentally relevant arts instruction and culminates in an annual student art exhibition. ArtEsteem serves over 2,500 children at an average of fifteen Bay Area school sites during the fiscal year. Among its over 20 awards and recognitions, a sample of what ArtEsteem has received include: 2024 Black History Month Commendation from Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2019 Community Award from the Oakland Unified School Districts Office of African American Male Achievement, 2016 Best Arts Nonprofit from East Bay Express Best of the East Bay 2016: Arts & Culture Writers Picks, 2012 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and 2002/1998/1993 Jampolsky Awards for Exemplary Work in Attitudinal Healing from the International Conference for Attitudinal Healing.
$962,516 spent$399,647 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project is a crucial community beautification effort creativley originated and led by Amana Harris. Since 2021 ArtEsteem has completed four of five large scale murals, aproximately 12,000 sq. ft. each, in the I-580 freeway underpasses between San Pablo Avenuen and West Street in West Oakland. Using the theme of super hero characters that embody the students' image and use special powers to address our community's deepest concerns, the murals were designed by elementary, middle, and high school students in District 3 with community participation in the design and painting process. The first of the five murals was conceptually designed by students from McClymonds High School. The second was conceptually designed by students from West Lake Middle School, the third by students from West Oakland Middle School, the fourth by students from Hoover Elementary, and the the fifth by students in ArtEsteems's Oakland Legacy Project after school program. All schools were engaged in the Self as Super Hero curriculum process.
$194,006 spent$8,425 earned by the program16% of program spendingSince 1998, ArtEsteem programmin has culminated in an annual student art exhibition. Students participate in a professional process of submitting artwork and artistic statements, and, if they choose, selling their pieces to the public. They receive half the proceeds from the art they sell, along with information about financial responsibility and higher education. The other half of the proceeeds goes back toward ArtEsteem programming. The 27th Annual ArtEsteem Exhibition theme was "Lighting our Future." The ArtEsteem team crafted this theme of replenishment and regeneration to provide hope amidst the struggles seen in students, school sites, communities, and the world. The 2025 Exhibition contained a wide range of artwork, including pieces from ArtEsteem Visual Arts, Digital Media, and Animation classes at 11 school sites, Oakland Legacy Project classes, St. Mary's Center portraits by elders taught by artist Jack Leamy's workshop, and a selection of pieces from ArtEsteem's archival collection. Our guests, staff, and parents informed us that this year's Exhibition was the best yet. (We seem to say this every year.) The 27th Annual Exhibition took place of Saturday, April 26, 2025,…
$59,825 spent$45,258 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,216,347.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $3.4M (+59%).
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 23% · 2018 27% · 2019 29% · 2020 36% · 2021 42% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% · 2024 32% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Amana Harris
Exec Director
Board chair
Steve Jones
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $120k → $762k.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 21% · 2019 59% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 72% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
51% of Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem is better cushioned than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem?
- Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,654,790 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($740,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,654,790 in grants to Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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