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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,036 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($80,200). 2 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
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $81k
What San Luis Obispo County Arts Council Dba Arts Obispo does
Mission
To advance the visual, literary and performing arts in san luis obispo county through programs that promote local arts planning and collaboration; the arts in educational settings; public access to the arts; and opportunities for artists and arts organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Open studios art tour - an annual, two-weekend long, self-guided tour of working artists studios offered free-to-the-public. Studios are located in all geographies of the slo county.
$30,000 spent$33,875 earned by the program43% of program spendingPoetry out loud - coordination countywide poetry out loud recitation competition for high school students in coordination with the national endowment for the arts and the california arts council.
$22,700 spent$5,000 earned by the program33% of program spendingArt after dark - monthly arts walk featuring regional artists in local business venues. Free and open to the public reception each first friday 6-9pm.
$16,777 spent$3,675 earned by the program24% of program spendingArt in public places - leadership of a countywide art in public places coalition to advocate for more public art and to improve and expand app policies and processes. Provision of services to call for artists, develop art plans and facilitate panel review processes.
Arts education - leadership of the createslo arts education alliance and work with the slo county office of education and community advocates to increase dance, drama, music, and visual arts for public school students pre-k through grade twelve in the county's ten school districts.
Artist/org development - professional development of and technical assistance to visual, performing and literary artists and organizations.
Creative economy.2 - a day-long community forum featuring key note speakers and interactive workshops covering economic and community impacts of the creative industries on the central coast region.
Cowparadeslo - in coordination with cowparadeslo llc, recruitment of artists to paint lifesize fiberglass cows and promotion of the cow parade slo countywide public art exhibition.
Slo county poet laureate - through a competitive application process, every two years a new poet laureate is selected to take poetry to the people and the schools, celebrating poets and writers countywide.
Slocats - coordination of bimonthly arts, culture & heritage affinity group meetings for idea exchange, collaborative marketing, and projects of mutual interest.
Aep5 - facilitate countywide economic impact study as part of the national arts & economic prosperity 5 study.
Equality mural
Painters group
Public art liason (pal) program
The 14 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,477.
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 2020 to 2021, from $49k to $110k (+123%).
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 11% · 2018 41% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $10k.
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 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO’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
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO'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. $137k 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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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO?
- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,036 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($80,200). 2 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $137,036 in grants to SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $80,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL DBA ARTS OBISPO 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