California · Nonprofit
THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($5,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $193k
What The Museum of the San Fernando Valley does
Mission
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit history, arts and culture museum that not only collects, displays and preserves artifacts but gives a central voice to the distinctive histories of all populations from the SFV whose cultures, races, religions and ideas contributed to the Valleys character, growth and development. The Museum is currently free to the public and offers a variety of exhibitions and programs; i.e. a history/artist speaker series, public art initiatives (PAI), Heritage Day events, and museum skill-training for volunteers which includes student interns from Cal State, Northridge. This CSUN partnership program engages students in research, archiving, docenting, exhibit development and metrics gathering. The Museum primarily pays its operating costs through grants and donations from walk-in visitors and museum events as well as limited gift-shop sales of consignment items from those SFV artists and history speakers who volunteer as
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Los angeles department of cultural affairs grant:dca match grant [educational workshops] - $3,630.00. The museum received this grant regardng the creation and development of an updated historic, inclusive timeline of the history of the san fernando valley- phase I - from inception to 1900. The museum was able to meet its $3,630 match obligation in council district 12 by a 70% in-kind and 30% monetary match through a $2,000.00 philanthropic foundation donation from anchor education foundation, a $1,630 of in-kind match of volunteers who helped research, create, artistically develop, paint and install the first of four 4'x 6' panels in the front of the museum, and $1,630 of museum general funds which were timely matched. This grant will be re-authorized, renewed and re-funded separately for both phase ii(1900 through 1949) and phase iii (1950 through 2010) with a completion time expected to be june 30, 2026. On 8/23/2024 the city of los angeles issued its remittance advice and thereafter sent its 9/19/2024 check for $3,630 which was deposited by the museum on 10/3/2024.
$3,630 spentof which $3,630 as grants27% of program spendingJohn lee's children art grant:john lee's children art grant - "making movies that matter - youth short film festival. Cost-free arts education opportunity that members of the museum's pai (public arts initiative) artists have been participating in with the community. Freba mehman was the lead volunteer pai artist and project manager from the museum who handled the grant. City of los angeles 4/5/2024 check for $2,500 was deposted in the museum's bank account on 4/18/2024.
$2,500 spentof which $2,500 as grants18% of program spendingThe ucla freedom mapping donation grant: the ucla freedom mapping donation grant is helping put on a new educational program for underserved schools with their parents and children to enhance their science and history skills. University of california 7/9/2024 check for $5,000 was deposited in the museum's bank account on 7/22/2024.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants37% of program spendingNorthridge west neighborhood council grant:a northridge west neighborhood council grant for the museum's pai arts faire for san fernando valley arists to offer creations to the valley community. Office of the city clerk, city of los angeles 9/27/2024 check for $2,466 was deposited in the museum's bank account on 10/15/2024.
$2,466 spentof which $2,466 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,596.
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 2021 to 2022, from $82k to $186k (+128%).
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.
100% of THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jackie Langa
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY’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
THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY?
- THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($5,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,500 in grants to THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY?
- CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY 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 2 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