California · Nonprofit
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,128 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($158,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $785k
- Net assets
- $682k
What Sebastopol Center for the Arts does
Mission
Enriching Lives Through the Arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Visual Arts / Gallery ProgramSebastopol Center for the Arts curates year-round exhibitions that showcase regional, national, and international artists across a variety of media. Exhibits are juried or curated and reflect themes relevant to contemporary social, cultural, and environmental issues. The gallery is free and open to the public, providing equitable access to the visual arts for thousands of visitors annually. In 2024, SebArts presented eight exhibitions, including solo and group shows, themed juried exhibitions, and community-based installations. Accompanying programming included artist talks, panel discussions, and public receptions, fostering dialogue and connection through the arts.
$392,989 spent$299,029 earned by the program48% of program spendingEducation ProgramSebArts delivers a broad range of arts education programs designed to engagelearners across the lifespan. In 2024, the Education Program included after-schoolarts classes for youth, school partnerships, summer camps, adult workshops, andintergenerational arts events. Disciplines included painting, printmaking, fiber arts, mixed media, photography, and more. The program prioritizes accessibility through need-based scholarships, sliding scale tuition, and bilingual instruction when possible. More than 500 individuals participated in education programming, many of them from underserved communities within Sonoma County.
$231,219 spent$103,351 earned by the program28% of program spendingCeramics ProgramSebArts operates a robust community ceramics studio serving youth and adult artistsof all skill levels. The program provides access to professional-grade kilns, wheels, and tools in a communal studio setting. Classes, workshops, and independent studio hours are offered throughout the year. In 2024, over 300 participants engaged in ceramics programming, including beginners exploring creative expression andadvanced artists producing work for sale and exhibition. The studio also hosts visiting artist workshops, special raku firings, and public demonstrations during local arts events.
$188,117 spent$148,596 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $812,325.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $971k (−20%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Sebastopol Center for the Arts’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $48k → $143k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Sebastopol Center for the Arts’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
Sebastopol Center for the Arts has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
53% 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 Sebastopol Center for the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 34% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of Sebastopol Center for the Arts'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
52% of Sebastopol Center for the Arts'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 $381k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Sebastopol Center for the Arts has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Sebastopol Center for the Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 Sebastopol Center for the Arts
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: 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 Sebastopol Center for the Arts?
- Sebastopol Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,128 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($158,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sebastopol Center for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $785,128 in grants to Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sebastopol Center for the Arts?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $158,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sebastopol Center for the Arts 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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