California · Nonprofit
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,140,323 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Social and Public Art Resource Center does
Mission
The Social and Public Art Resource Center's ("sparc") mission is to produce, preserve, and promote activitst and socially relevant artwork; to devise and innovate excellent art pieces through participatory processes; and ultimately, to foster artistic collaborations that empower communities who face marginalization and discrimination.ions that empower communities who face marginalization and discrimination.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mural production:sparc works with communities to confront the most critical social and political issues of our time, including immigration, labor, education and the environment. Sparc engages communities in envisioning and advocating for social change. Our public art projects serve artists, community members, and advocacy organizations in primarily low-income and working class minority communities across the u.s.for 2024 sparc completed a significant accomplishment with completion of the great wall bridge project.
$5,184,965 spentof which $4,825 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,184,965.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $6.7M (+196%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Judith F Baca
Artistic director/CEO
Board chair
Zojelia Flores
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $211k → $356k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE 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
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
35% 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 SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 32% · 2019 55% · 2020 92% · 2021 96% · 2022 83% · 2023 58% — 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
45% of SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE 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 SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER?
- SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,140,323 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $9,140,323 in grants to SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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