California · Nonprofit
MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION
MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,005 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $424k
What Morro Bay Art Association does
Mission
Our mission is to provide a venue to display and sell art by local artists and to provide art education to the community. Our galleries serve about 200 local artists and welcome about 3,000 guests per year. Art demonstrations open to the public provide education to 25 or more people per month. Public receptions welcome 25 - 60 guests and members per show, nine to ten times per year. Art in the park is attended by thousands every memorial day weekend, july 4th weekend, and labor day weekend. Our children's program serves about 75 children per year, and our scholarship program presents awards to about forty high school and college students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Morro Bay Art Association offers nine gallery exhibits a year, with each exhibit hanging four to five weeks. Each show offers members the opportunity to show and sell work. In addition, with each show, members or local artist groups are designated as "featured artists." each individual or group of featured artists advertises the exhibit throughout the region. Receptions for shows are usually attended by fifty or more members and other visitors. During most of the year the gallery is open daily from noon until four. Interested community residents, members, and tourists visit to view shows or purchase art. A nominal % of each sale provides revenue for gallery operating expenses and student scholarships.
$52,148 spent68% of program spendingArt in the park provides members and regional artists a venue to sell their art and the community with the opportunity to view and purchase art. Revenue from this event provides operating funds for the gallery and scholarships for the student artists' competition. These funds allow us to carry out our mission through demonstration, classes, workshops, and exhibits. At art in the park, approximately one hundred vendors set up booths and sell art and handmade crafts for three days, three times a year.
$2,846 spent4% of program spendingChildren's classes are offered at least once yearly, usually in the summer months. These classes are free to fifteen students between the ages of 7 and 14. At almostany given time, at least one artist is offering on-going weekly classes. Other workshops, classes, and demonstrations are offered throughout the year as requested or when artists volunteer to teach. Some demonstrations (in addition to our regular monthly demonstrations) are free to members and the public. Members are encouraged to offer economical classes to the membership and community. Non-members are also invited to teach workshops or classes.
$21,586 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,580.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $376k to $436k (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION’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
MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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 MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION?
- MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,005 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,005 in grants to MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORRO BAY ART ASSOCIATION 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 2 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