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Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum
Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,500 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum does
Mission
Organized exclusively for charitable purposes
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Deposit on future speaker fees were paid to speakers
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum’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
Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
59% of Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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
Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum: 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 Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum?
- Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,500 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $78,500 in grants to Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Saint Helena Forum for Innovation and Creativity The Saint Helena Forum 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), 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