California · Nonprofit
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,744,898 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,454,422). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $14M
What School of Arts and Culture at Mhp does
Mission
The mission of the school is to catalyze creativity and empower community. The school envisions a world where creativity inspires compassion and vibrant communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community development:during the year ended june 30, 2022, soac formally launched a community development program area, expanding its work beyond cultural programming to include neighborhood-centered development strategies. This body of work advances a long-term vision to stabilize, activate, and preserve the cultural and economic vitality of east san jose.in december 2022, soac entered into an agreement with gardner health services and community arts stabilization trust to form 1751 alum rock, llc ("the llc") to acquire and redevelop a commercial property located across the street from la plaza. Soac is the managing and majority member of the llc. The property, known as la placita, is being developed as a mixed-use hub for arts, small businesses, and community-serving uses, including cultural space, local retail, and health-serving facilities. The llc is consolidated in soac's financial statements, and the interests of the other members are reflected as noncontrolling interests.in addition to la placita, soac is advancing la avenida, a cultural district strategy focused on the alum rock corridor, and participates in collaborative land-stewardship initiatives, including the…
$463,221 spent12% of program spendingCommunity engagement and cultural events:soac curates and hosts year-round cultural programming, festivals, and performances while providing subsidized access to la plaza for local artists, schools, and community organizations. These programs activate the campus as a culturally rooted, inclusive public space and support local creative economies.mercaditos hunger relief:launched during the covid-19 pandemic, mercaditos provides fresh food and essential supplies to east san jose families. The program has become a sustained community service responding to ongoing economic and food-access challenges.
$1,842,326 spent$1,108,181 earned by the program48% of program spendingMarket-rate rentals and production services:soac generates mission-aligned earned revenue through facility rentals and production services at la plaza. These activities support financial sustainability and directly subsidize community access and cultural programming.
$1,201,562 spent$20,180 earned by the program31% of program spendingArts education:soac provides culturally grounded arts education opportunities for youth through summer camps, after school programming, and community workshops. Programming emphasizes creative expression, cultural identity, and youth development.multicultural arts leadership institute (mali):mali is a year-long professional development program that cultivates artists and art administrators working across the arts, culture, and creative economy sectors. Since its founding, mali has trained more than 150 alumni and invested significantly in strengthening the region's multicultural arts leadership ecosystem.
$317,372 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,824,481.
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 $10M to $18M (+74%).
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 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 63% · 2021 21% · 2022 37% · 2023 40% · 2024 4% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Itza Sanchez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $450k → $2.2M.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 24% · 2020 17% · 2021 46% · 2022 32% · 2023 15% — 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
52% of SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$142k
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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP?
- SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,744,898 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,454,422). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $12,744,898 in grants to SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,454,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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