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BE SEEN ART CENTER

BE SEEN ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,600 to it, the largest being Troos Foundation ($6,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$3k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Be Seen Art Center does

Mission

Ignite inspiration and empowerment in individuals with special needs. Provide vocational trainings to encourage them to utilize art as a powerful medium for expressing emotions and personal stories.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Ignite inspiration and empowerment in individuals with special needs. Provide vocational trainings to encourage them to utilize art as a powerful medium for expressing emotions and personal stories.

    $8,163 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,163.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Hsiaowen Phyllis Tung

CEO

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BE SEEN ART CENTER’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BE SEEN ART CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BE SEEN ART CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like BE SEEN ART CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE SEEN ART CENTER: 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 BE SEEN ART CENTER?
BE SEEN ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,600 to it, the largest being Troos Foundation ($6,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BE SEEN ART CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,600 in grants to BE SEEN ART CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of BE SEEN ART CENTER?
Troos Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BE SEEN ART CENTER 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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