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Value Culture

Value Culture (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,524 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($103,810). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$224k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$0
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Value Culture does

Mission

To produce and support artistic, educational, charitable,and spiritual events to inspire individuals to give back to their communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program: Soy Vey - Lunar New Year Shabbat - on 2/2 Value Culture presented a cultural-education program aligning Lunar New Year and Shabbat to advance its exempt purpose of arts/culture education and cross-community understanding. Held at Fang Restaurant (San Francisco) and led by chef Kathy Fang, the program served 70 participants (capacity) and featured 7 artists/speakers. Activities included brief historical/contextual remarks, moderated storytelling, segments, and live music. Participant feedback indicated increased cultural understanding and interest in future collaboration.

    $3,880 spent$5,243 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  2. Program: Soul Vey-Black History & Women History Month Shabbat -on 3/1 Value Culture presented a cultural-education program at JCCSF advancing arts/culture education and cross-community understanding between Black and Jewish communities. Activities included a shared tasting/meal by Chef Vee (Smoke Soul) DJ music by DJ Beatific, traditional dancing, brief historical/context presentations on Black and Jewish traditions and womens leadership, poetry readings and a Shabbat ritual (blessings, candle lighting, chal 80 participants (capacity). The program garnered press and supported intergenerational learning and relationship-building through food music and facilitated cultural exchange.

    $2,061 spent$1,503 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Program:A New Day Dawning:Indigenous Peoples Month Celebration -11/10 Value Culture presented a free, all ages public cultural program for Indigenous People Heritage Month at Golden Gate Park Music Concourse Activities included live music, dance, storytelling, and educational presentations by Indigenous artists, elders, and culture-bearers. Advanced our exempt purpose of arts/culture education and community engagement by promoting cultural understanding and intergenerational learning. Estimated attendance between 1,000-2000. Partners:Illuminate the Arts(nonprofit)&San Francisco Recreation Parks

    $6,214 spent
    51% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,155.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($233k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($166k)2023 Revenue 92 ($214k) Expenses 135 ($161k) Net assets 132 ($218k)2024 Revenue 97 ($224k) Expenses 184 ($220k) Net assets 0 ($0)
202220232024
Revenue (97)Expenses (184)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $218k to $0 (−100%).

$166k
$218k
$0
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$113k
’22
$53k
’23
$4k
’24
16
months of
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

Adam Swig

Exec Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed111
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $54k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Value Culture’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

Value Culture leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 Value Culture.

41%
largest funder
67%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 67% · 2022 43% · 2023 60% — 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

60% of Value Culture's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

76% of Value Culture'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from California funders.

IL
MI
OR
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Value Culture

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 42%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Value Culture?
Value Culture (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,524 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($103,810). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Value Culture have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $252,524 in grants to Value Culture, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Value Culture?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $103,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Value Culture 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 17 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