California · Nonprofit
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,741,992 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,536,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center does
Mission
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center is a Latino-led, grassroots, artist-driven organization that promotes Mexican-American cultural awareness and understanding in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Academy-----------Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy has surpassed 35 years of empowering youth through rigorous arts education in music, dance, and visual arts, preserving and celebrating Mexican culture. Our master instructors provided hands-on training to hundreds of students, fostering artistic excellence, cultural identity, and community values. Students performed at major Academy events, recorded traditional songs with accompanying music videos, and showcased their talents on regional television, reinforcing Los Cenzontles role as a leader in cultural arts education.
$1,003,229 spent$50,233 earned by the program100% of program spendingProduction and Performance--------------------------Los Cenzontles Productions plays a vital role in amplifying Mexican culture through media, building an extensive archive of 35 music albums, 20 documentary films, and numerous music videos over 35 years. In 2024, Los Cenzontles released Covers 3, reinterpreting popular songs through Mexican and Latin rhythms and instrumentation, as well as a banda version of Neil Youngs Powderfinger. Founder Eugene Rodriguez also published Bird of Four Hundred Voices, a widely praised memoir named an NPR Books We Love selection.
Performance-----------The Los Cenzontles Touring Group, composed of Academy alumni and advanced students, brought vibrant performances to diverse audiences in 2024. Our Music & Tacos concert series drew packed local crowds, while the Bird of Four Hundred Voices book release event featured a special performance attended by supporters and media. Annual Da de los Muertos and Holiday concerts also attracted new audiences, furthering Los Cenzontles mission to celebrate and share Mexican cultural traditions through live performance.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,003,229.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $4.3M (+79%).
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 2% · 2018 9% · 2019 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 2% · 2022 22% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Eugene Rodriguez
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $528k → $782k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 38% · 2019 28% · 2020 41% · 2021 54% · 2022 35% · 2023 19% — 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
64% of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $222k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$175k
- Department of the Interior$47k
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 Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts 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 Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center?
- Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,741,992 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,536,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $6,741,992 in grants to Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,536,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts 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.
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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 22 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