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Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc

Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,690 to it, the largest being ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ($31,830). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$196k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$266k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc does

Mission

To cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, develop and encourage understanding of and public interest in the fields of theatre, dance, music, motion pictures, speech and the arts. During the year we had 28,859 volunteer hours.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. San Marino High School's Dance Program has grown considerably since the led by Tracy Shen. Dance has various levels based on ability with the highest and most coveted dance group being Dance Company (D-Co). The dance program has recently won several dance competitions in various categories and travels to compete.

    $53,135 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Titan Music consists of several groups including Marching Band, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Jazz Band, Winter Drumline and Winter Color Guard and are open to the entire student body in which 300-350 students are involved. The Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra and Jazz Band perform three formal concerts each year which are open to the public. The award winning Marching Band supports the football program throughout the season in addition to competing in five Southern California field competitions per year. The Orchestra competes in one competition and the award winning Winter Drumline and Color Guard compete in five Southern California Percussion Alliance competitions each year.

    $35,469 spent
    18% of program spending
  3. Each year the high school produces a musical. Auditions are open to the entire student body. Students participate as either cast members or technical crew. There are six performances and open to other students, faculty, families, friends and the community. The students learn teamwork in addition to theatrical skills (acting, dancing, set building, costuming, and sound and light engineering).

  4. The Choral Music Program at San Marino High School has been in existence for over 40 years, impacting the lives of thousands of students. The program is part of the curricular offerings at San Marino High School, a public school located in beautiful Southern California. Its deep traditions of excellence in choral music have grown the program into one of the finest high school choral programs in California, earning countless awards and honors, and invitations as headline performers at major festivals through the U S.

    $26,781 spent
    14% of program spending
  5. Drama

  6. Visual Art

  7. Speech 1

    $78,142 spent
    40% of program spending
  8. Speech 2

  9. Other

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $193,527.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($356k) Expenses 100 ($355k) Net assets 100 ($193k)2018 Revenue 110 ($391k) Expenses 96 ($341k) Net assets 126 ($243k)2019 Revenue 96 ($341k) Expenses 106 ($374k) Net assets 108 ($208k)2020 Revenue 158 ($563k) Expenses 155 ($549k) Net assets 115 ($222k)2021 Revenue 55 ($195k) Expenses 53 ($187k) Net assets 126 ($244k)2022 Revenue 83 ($295k) Expenses 81 ($289k) Net assets 124 ($239k)2023 Revenue 78 ($277k) Expenses 69 ($244k) Net assets 141 ($272k)2024 Revenue 77 ($275k) Expenses 79 ($278k) Net assets 139 ($269k)2025 Revenue 55 ($196k) Expenses 56 ($199k) Net assets 138 ($266k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (56)Net assets (138)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $193k to $277k (+43%).

$193k
$277k
$237k
$251k
$273k
$239k
$273k
$269k
$266k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

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Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$50k
’18
−$33k
’19
$14k
’20
$9k
’21
$6k
’22
$33k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$3k
’25
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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.

2017201820192020202220232024
Listed3334443
Joined·+2+0+4·+1+0
No longer listed·203·11
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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

Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc.

60%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 52% — 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.

Where its funders are

89% of Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc?
Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,690 to it, the largest being ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ($31,830). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,690 in grants to Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc?
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $31,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of SMHS Visual and Performing Arts Inc 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 5 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