California · Nonprofit
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,877,091 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Self Help Graphics & Art Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1970 as "art, inc." but incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1973 as "self help graphics & art" (shg), shg is dedicated to the production, interpretation and distribution of prints and other art media by chicana/o and latinx artists. Our multidisciplinary and intergenerational programs promote artistic excellence and empower our community by providing access to space, tools, training, and resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Self-help graphics (shg) presents cultural events such as the longest running dia de los muertos public celebration in the country for local and regional audiences. The event includes a three-month long series of programs aimed at engaging local communities in a festival event on or as close as possible to november 2nd including food, entertainment, and art. Shg also provides a robust program of cultural exhibitions year-round, which include public and educational engagement programming. Community and youth programs - self-help graphics (shg) promotes and supports the work of emerging, established, and mid-career chicano/latino visual artists and provides a space where they can work in an egalitarian atmosphere of creativity and cooperation. Shg's public art workshops attract artists of all levels who work at shg in a variety of mediums including intaglio printmaking, diy silk-screening and many others. Shg is one of the few places in los angeles that offers artists a space where they can develop artistically regardless of age, race, or ethnicity. Shg also provides art services to schools, community-based organizations and private companies through its barrio mobile art studio…
$1,158,964 spent$237,668 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,158,964.
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 2017 to 2018, from $454k to $6.2M (+1260%).
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 8% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC’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. 0 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 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $233k → $3.0M.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
30% 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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 43% · 2020 28% · 2021 47% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC'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
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- National Endowment for the Arts$280k
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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: 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 SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC?
- SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,877,091 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $12,877,091 in grants to SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC 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 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing