California · Nonprofit
SANCHEZ ART CENTER
SANCHEZ ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,617 to it, the largest being ATKINSON FOUNDATION ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $442k
What Sanchez Art Center does
Mission
Creating Community through Art. We accomplish our mission by providing free exhibitions of emerging and established California and west coast artists, education and engagement designed to make art accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds and affordable art studios.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exibition Program The year began with exciting concurrent exhibitions including well known multi-media artist Thomas Campbell, with an exhibition titled Shape Shifting and other astral lint balls curated by Susan Hillhouse Leask. Campbells renown stretches across societal cultures including art, surf and skateboarding. Over 200 attending the opening night reception and 70 returned for the closing talk, even on Super Bowl Sunday. In the East Gallery, a moving show, Citizen Joy: Views of Democracy highlighted through a variety of visual art mediums, what we all benefit from living in a democratic republic. Community events welcomed attendees to both share at a communal table to offer their vision of democracy and have it documented on a tablecloth, and also to create individual right birds portraying the value of both our rights and what we appreciate about the services we receive from the federal government,from parks and libraries, to the post office public art programs, peaceful protest and voting. In the West Gallery, the Art Guild of Pacifica got into the theme with a members show titled Ode to Joy. Over the course of the year, the galleries brought inspiration to 5,200…
$224,832 spent$170,006 earned by the program70% of program spending19 studios leased to 30 artists meeting selection criteria; rates are below market and lease terms are limited.
$48,318 spent$168,972 earned by the program15% of program spendingArts Education and Community Engagement Sanchez Goes to School, Sanchez Art Centers award-winning program, again provided a full 15 art lessons for each TK 5 th grade student at Sunset Ridge Elementary School. Conducted during the school day and provided nearly 350 students hands on art making and an introduction to a variety of contemporary and historic artists and artworks. Bringing art to the classroom has been critical as children have continued to work through challenging societal times. Six summer camps were held, providing week-long sessions with 72 children, ages 4 15, participating. Two scholarships were given to ensure opportunity for those who might not otherwise be able to The programming included nature art camp, mixed media/printmaking, introduction to creativity from painting to assemblage, and filmmaking. Sanchez Art Center participated in large community events held for Earth Day and Pride Week, bringing hands on activities to both events. At Earth Day, attendees created pelican masks, and at Pride, flags were made to be installed on the Sanchez campus. The Pacific Coast Fog Fest was another successful community event, with over 60,000 in attendance, even with one…
$47,055 spent$14,014 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,205.
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 $341k to $456k (+33%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of SANCHEZ ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Cindy Abbott
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SANCHEZ ART CENTER’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
SANCHEZ ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 47% · 2019 78% · 2020 70% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 79% — 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
67% of SANCHEZ ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of SANCHEZ ART CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
SANCHEZ ART CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 SANCHEZ ART CENTER
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SANCHEZ ART CENTER: 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 SANCHEZ ART CENTER?
- SANCHEZ ART CENTER (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,617 to it, the largest being ATKINSON FOUNDATION ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANCHEZ ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $74,617 in grants to SANCHEZ ART CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANCHEZ ART CENTER?
- ATKINSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANCHEZ ART CENTER 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 8 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