California · Nonprofit
Sonoma Art School
Sonoma Art School (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE FRUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Sonoma Art School does
Mission
Making Arts Education Accessible to All ? Sonoma Art School provides inclusive visual arts education programs for children, teens, adults, and underserved community members throughout northern Sonoma County. The organization offers classes, workshops, camps, and community arts programs, while providing full and partial scholarships to individuals and families with financial need to ensure access regardless of economic circumstances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1. Youth & Family Visual Arts Education Programs Sonoma Art School provided year-round visual arts classes, workshops, camps, and enrichment programs for children and families throughout northern Sonoma County. Programs included after-school classes, Saturday art programs, summer camps, and no-school mini camps in mixed media, ceramics, drawing, painting, and nature-based arts education. These programs served children ages 2.5?17 and encouraged creativity, confidence, and lifelong engagement in the arts. Serving 337 students over the year.
Sonoma Art School partnered with schools, libraries, community centers, and nonprofit organizations to provide accessible arts education opportunities for underserved populations, including youth, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. Programs were offered in community-based settings throughout the region and focused on expanding access to arts education for participants who might not otherwise have access to creative programming. Served over 30 special needs individuals in 2025
Sonoma Art School continued its mission of making arts education accessible to all by providing financial assistance to families and individuals with demonstrated need. In 2025, SAS awarded 25 full and partial scholarships, totaling approximately $6,250 in waived class and camp fees, helping ensure that financial barriers did not prevent participation in arts education programs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $5k (+167%).
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.
14% of Sonoma Art School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kelly Ebeling
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Sonoma Art School’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.
Where its funders are
Sonoma Art School draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Sonoma Art School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sonoma Art School
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sonoma Art School: 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 Sonoma Art School?
- Sonoma Art School (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE FRUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sonoma Art School have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Sonoma Art School.
- Who is the largest funder of Sonoma Art School?
- THE FRUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sonoma Art School 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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