California · Nonprofit
LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE
LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,470 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($179,470). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $470k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Latino Center of Art and Culture does
Mission
To foster the artistic, economic and cultural development of the chicano/latino community in the greater sacramento area by engaging the community in arts programming reflecting the chicano/latino experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The latino center of art & culture (lcac), located in sacramento, california, is a beacon of cultural enrichment and community empowerment. Founded in 1972 by chicano students, lcac has become a pivotal institution in fostering the artistic, economic, and cultural development of the latino community in the greater sacramento region. Our mission is to produce, present, exhibit, and engage the community in arts programming that reflects the latino experience. Through theater, visual art installations, concerts, and cultural gatherings, lcac aims to offer accessible arts programming, advocate for social justice, and promote cultural understanding. Lcac is located in a formerly underutilized maintenance building in sacramento's miller park. Our primary audience includes the multigenerational latino community in the greater sacramento area, though our programming is designed to educate and engage individuals of all ethnic backgrounds interested in learning about latino culture. Our audiences also include local schools, cultural enthusiasts, tourists, and the broader arts and culture community. We support artists and local small entrepreneurs who make and sell artisan arts and crafts at…
$227,738 spentof which $7,600 as grants$61,075 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $227,738.
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 2018 to 2019, from $64k to $134k (+109%).
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: 2018 47% · 2019 21% · 2020 63% · 2021 84% · 2022 68% · 2023 61% · 2024 64% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Board chair
Alma Lopez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE’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
LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
0% of LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% 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
68% of LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k 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
LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE
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
85% 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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE: 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 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE?
- LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,470 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($179,470). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $470,470 in grants to LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $179,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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