California · Nonprofit
SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE
SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $399k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $254k
What Sfai Legacy Foundation and Archive does
Mission
The SFAI Legacy Foundation & Archive (SFAI LF&A) is an independent non-profit formed to protect sustain and carry forward the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute - a legacy of bold experimental artistic practice and innovative scholarly inquiry The Foundation preserves and makes accessible to scholars and artists the SFAI archives an unparalleled collection of primary source material documenting the history of SFAI and the art of Northern California dating back to 1871
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The SFAI Legacy Foundation & Archive preserves and advances the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute by maintaining and providing access to its historic archives documenting Northern California art since 1871 The organization supports scholars artists and the public through access to primary source materials and through public programs exhibitions and publications SFAI LF&A highlights the contributions of SFAI artists with special attention to underrecognized communities whose work has shaped the institution and the Bay Areas cultural landscape
$212,368 spent$399,343 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,368.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $49k to $254k (+416%).
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: 2024 72% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE’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
SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE.
“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
88% of SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.
Against its field
SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE runs a healthier operating margin 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 SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE
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
99% 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 SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE: 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 SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE?
- SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE.
- Who is the largest funder of SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SFAI LEGACY FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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