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Mendocino Arts Center Inc

Mendocino Arts Center Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,188 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ($346,009). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$579k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$684k
Net assets
$764k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Mendocino Arts Center Inc does

Mission

Mendocino art center is an educational institution that fosters engagement, exploration and excellence in the arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The art center provided: educational and professional training in arts and crafts; direct services in the arts; temporary housing for studentsenrolled in the arts and crafts educational programs; promotion of artsand crafts through artist showings, advertising, and retail stores forstudents and other artists, and public advertising for students and businesses.

    $332,078 spent$178,163 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,078.

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 ($726k) Expenses 100 ($651k) Net assets 100 ($616k)2018 Revenue 139 ($1.0M) Expenses 160 ($1.0M) Net assets 95 ($584k)2019 Revenue 137 ($997k) Expenses 163 ($1.1M) Net assets 86 ($530k)2020 Revenue 188 ($1.4M) Expenses 125 ($815k) Net assets 175 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 113 ($823k) Expenses 123 ($804k) Net assets 178 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 96 ($698k) Expenses 136 ($884k) Net assets 148 ($912k)2023 Revenue 72 ($522k) Expenses 105 ($683k) Net assets 122 ($751k)2024 Revenue 80 ($579k) Expenses 86 ($562k) Net assets 124 ($764k)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (86)Net assets (124)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 2019 to 2020, from $639k to $1.1M (+80%).

$711k
$697k
$639k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$956k
$905k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 3% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of Mendocino Arts Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’17
−$35k
’18
−$62k
’19
$549k
’20
$19k
’21
−$186k
’22
−$161k
’23
$17k
’24
1.6
months of
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

David Bell

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed89999758
Joined·+4+0+0+1+3+1+5
No longer listed·3001532
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $72k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Mendocino Arts Center Inc’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

Mendocino Arts Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

66% 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 Mendocino Arts Center Inc.

51%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 37% · 2022 61% · 2023 68% — 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

60% of Mendocino Arts Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

66% of Mendocino Arts Center 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 $234k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

IL
NY
CA
NC
TX

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

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Mendocino Arts Center Inc's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Mendocino Arts Center Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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 Mendocino Arts Center Inc

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 30%Fundraising 11%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mendocino Arts Center Inc?
Mendocino Arts Center Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,188 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ($346,009). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Mendocino Arts Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $684,188 in grants to Mendocino Arts Center Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mendocino Arts Center Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $346,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mendocino Arts Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing