California · Nonprofit
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,332 to it, the largest being Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $632k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions does
Mission
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions creates opportunities, inspires children and youth, and builds community in the Salinas Valley through visual and multicultural arts education, experiences, and mentorship, where young people are respected, develop artistic and life skills, and explore and embrace their cultural identities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Experimental Arts Studio, located in East Salinas, operates five days a week at no charge and empowers young artists and students through creative freedom, professional instruction, and cultural exploration. More than just a studio, it functions as a vibrant community hub where youth and emerging artists from underserved neighborhoods are encouraged to discover their identities through the arts. Participants receive hands-on instruction across multiple visual disciplines, including drawing, painting, and muralism. The studio emphasizes cultural pride, emotional expression, and personal growth. Each student is given the tools, mentorship, and safe space to explore their creativity without judgment. In 2025, the art studio opened on April 17th, and had 1502 non-unique youth sign-ins and 340 unique students
$211,099 spent$270 earned by the program38% of program spendingTo eliminate barriers to access, Hijos del Sol delivers off-site mobile art studio programming to schools, community organizations, and public events throughout Monterey County. This initiative allows children and youth who may not be able to visit the main studio to engage in high-quality art education experiences in their own communities. These mobile studios provide free, on-site workshops designed to spark creativity, build skills, and inspire cultural connection. In 2025, Hijos del Sol brought its mobile programming to approximately 4,129 children.
$220,071 spent$217,453 earned by the program40% of program spendingStudent Art Exhibits: Hijos del Sol hosts three major public exhibits each year that showcase student-created artwork and celebrate the cultural heritage of Indigenous and local communities. These events serve as creative platforms for participants to share their personal stories, artistic processes, and cultural insights. Youth are guided in writing short artist statements, which are displayed alongside their work, elevating their voices and perspectives. Projects are visually documented from inception through installation, emphasizing both process and product. Approximately 670 people participated in or attended these community exhibits in 2025.
$27,920 spent5% of program spendingCommunity-Produced Murals: Hijos del Sol integrates youth from our Experimental Arts Studio directly into the planning and painting of large-scale public murals. Over 80 murals-featuring vibrant, culturally resonant social imagery reflective of the communities we serve-now adorn public buildings and walls across Monterey County and beyond. More than half of these murals were co-created with children and youth. Studio participants contribute throughout the full artistic process, gaining real-world experience in community engagement, storytelling through art, and public installation. In 2025, 29 artists and youth collaborators participated in these community mural projects. All other programs.
$97,568 spent$30,546 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $556,658.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $179k to $455k (+154%).
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.
61% of Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions’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. 3 of the last 8 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
Christian Mendelsohn
Executive director
Board chair
Cristina Medina Dirksen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $61k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions’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
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions 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
59% 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 Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
100% of Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions
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
87% 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 Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions: 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 Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions?
- Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,332 to it, the largest being Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $239,332 in grants to Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions?
- Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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