California · Nonprofit
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,217 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($448,334). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $919k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $705k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Cashion Cultural Legacy does
Mission
The Cashion Cultural Legacy (ccl) is committed to sustaining the preservation, presentation, and education of mexican folk culture through dance. In honor and recognition of dr. Susan v. Cashion and her many contributions to the dance world, the ccl pursues this mission by operating a professional mexican folk dance company, offering accessible classes to the community, sponsoring an artist exchange of dancers, directors, and choreographers between california and méxico, and researching and documenting the art form.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Los lupenos de san jose & los lupenos juvenil - our adult dance company, los lupeños, and our youth ensemble, los lupenos juvenil, rehearse and perform year-round at the mexican heritage plaza in san jose, california (managed by the nonprofit school of arts and culture) and one day/week at the nonprofit starting arts studios, also in san josé, california. Both dance companies rehearse 2 to 3 times a week for approximately 6 hours/week/company. All dancers are volunteers and we provide professional training, access to resident master artists, research trip participation, and accurate regional costuming for them. In fy 2024 we held 2 self-sponsored dance events which included 1 outdoor community festival and 1 indoor theater concert. For those that could not attend, we offered on-demand access to the concert and free online access to a video of the entire 5+ hour talent portion of our community festival. Our dance companies also performed at client-contracted or pro-bono performances for weddings, festivals, corporate parties, etc. We estimate that during fy 2024 our dance companies performed in front of an estimated 21,665 audience members at 40 community or private events with…
$245,212 spent$54,901 earned by the program48% of program spendingLos lupenos academy - our dance academy continued offering a selection of in-person folklórico dance classes during fy 2024. Our typical year offers four 10-week quarterly sessions, each with 14 class offerings to all ages, starting with toddlers up to advanced adults. Tuition aid of up to 85% encourages family participation where, due to their economic situation, they could not afford extra-curricular activities for their children. This aid is funded by personal contributions raised during the annual giving tuesday campaign. In fy 2024 our academy taught 751 students and had over 3,000 people attend session recitals.
$244,267 spent$125,698 earned by the program48% of program spendingArtist exchange/artist residency project- a group of 5 dancers plus our artistic director traveled to oaxaca, méxico to take master classes, attend lectures & presentations, observe costume construction by generational artisans, and experience the wonder and energy of the quintessential guelaguetza, an annual festival where all 8 regions of oaxaca are represented with music, dance, artisan wares, and food. Learnings, videos, and new dances have been shared and reviewed during rehearsals. Much of the material will appear in different events during the next two seasons.
$13,888 spent3% of program spendingOther programs include publications project and archives: during fy2024 we benefited by receiving an archival internship sponsored by dance/usa. The assigned archivist focused on creating an archival structure that met the needs for a performing arts organization and specifically dance. The first inroads were made to begin to populate the database structure with videos, music, and documents from as far back as the early 1970s (los lupeños was founded in 1969).
$10,117 spent$180 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $513,484.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $5.9M (+80%).
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 1% · 2018 3% · 2019 0% · 2020 22% · 2021 35% · 2022 8% · 2023 24% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $275k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY’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
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 43% · 2021 81% · 2022 57% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“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
60% of CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY: 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 CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY?
- CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,217 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($448,334). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $705,217 in grants to CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $448,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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