California · Nonprofit
MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,565 to it, the largest being Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $257k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Marin Society of Artists does
Mission
Public art center and studios providing instruction, lectures, tours, art exhibits and multi-disciplinary arts & enrichment activities. Msa supports artists of multiple disciplines at all stages of development, and fosters activities that encourage the general public & under-served communities to explore and incorporate the arts in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operated a community art center providing physical space and virtual presence for diverse arts activities including classes, poetry readings, classical music, theatre rehearsal, and art exhibitions. Provided 17 artist studio space. Sponsored 12 art exhibitions, monthly art critiques and ongoing painting activities. Participated in downtown san rafael arts district (dsrad) public art programs, in downtown locations and at the art centre. Worked with dsrad managing stakeholders to allocate $671,000, in state funding for arts & cultural activities in/near downtown san rafael. Partnered with canal alliance and other organizations through the canal arts (tca) bringing art and family arts activities to a disadvantaged immigrant community. Worked with the city of san rafael to develop procedures to facilitate public art on private property and eliminating onerous fees and approval processes. Worked with city of san rafael, the canal arts, immigrant artists, indigenous people representatives and voces del canal community to design and install a public mural project at the al boro community center in the canal neighborhood, and 2 murals at san pedro elementary school (80% are students of…
$268,429 spent$135,741 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,429.
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 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $244k (+22%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 1% · 2023 6% · 2024 13% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’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 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $89 → $20k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’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
MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365 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
MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS is better cushioned 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
Organizations like MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS: 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 MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS?
- MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,565 to it, the largest being Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,565 in grants to MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS?
- Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 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 4 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