Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,491,939
- Total expenses
- $917,632
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,414,245
- Grants paid
- $375,000
- Program service revenue
- $3,803
- Investment income
- $69,378
- Other revenue
- $4,513
- Total assets, end of year
- $3,213,085
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $33,891
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $3,179,194
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $813,298
- Management and general expenses
- $75,592
- Fundraising expenses
- $28,742
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $813,298
Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$128,402
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,285,843
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2a · Program service revenue: Sales & licensing
total $3,803 · related or exempt $3,803
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3 · Investment income
total $69,378 · excluded $69,378
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Other income
total $4,513 · excluded $4,513
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11e · Other revenue, total
$4,513
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $375,000 · program services $375,000
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $110,580 · program services $77,406 · management and general $16,587 · fundraising $16,587
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $163,004 · program services $152,426 · management and general $5,410 · fundraising $5,168
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $7,709 · program services $7,264 · management and general $228 · fundraising $217
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $7,760 · program services $6,526 · management and general $623 · fundraising $611
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $21,101 · program services $17,799 · management and general $1,663 · fundraising $1,639
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $18,449 · management and general $18,449
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $25,082 · management and general $25,082
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $108,787 · program services $103,172 · management and general $2,363 · fundraising $3,252
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $6 · program services $6
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13 · Office expenses
total $16,834 · program services $16,043 · management and general $774 · fundraising $17
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14 · Information technology
total $20,418 · program services $19,366 · management and general $1,052
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15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $11,189 · program services $10,294 · management and general $783 · fundraising $112
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17 · Travel
total $5,184 · program services $4,381 · management and general $751 · fundraising $52
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $12,164 · program services $10,253 · management and general $961 · fundraising $950
-
23 · Insurance
total $3,166 · program services $2,793 · management and general $236 · fundraising $137
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24a · Other expenses: Dues, license & service fees
total $11,199 · program services $10,569 · management and general $630
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $170,040 · end of year $83,163
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $447,193 · end of year $1,472,611
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $2,007,860 · end of year $13,904
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $15,579 · end of year $14,682
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$70,930
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$31,496
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $14,667 · end of year $39,434
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $1,589,291
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $14,733 · end of year $33,891
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $496,732 · end of year $3,108,791
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,143,874 · end of year $70,403
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Our mission is to document and celebrate blues, Cajun, zydeco, gospel, jazz, Tejano/Norteo, old-time, and other tradition-based styles of music through archival preservation, exhibits, community and educational outreach, live performance, and direct support to artists. By our activities, we seek to broaden public awareness of our diverse music history, support the vitality of living traditions, and reinforce the value and sustainability of community-based cultures.
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Down Home Building: The Arhoolie Foundation is a controlling member of 10341 San Pablo Ave LLC, a building that houses four cultural non-profit organizations: the Arhoolie Foundation, Les Blank Films, Source Light, and Down Home Music Foundation. Together, the Arhoolie Foundation and Source Light leadership and staff manage the building and produce free public events there featuring music and film.
Expenses $385,471 · Grants $375,000
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Acquiring, archiving, preserving, curating, and creating equitable public access to various collections of audio recordings, photographs, film, video, papers, posters, and other archival materials documenting blues, Cajun, zydeco, gospel, jazz, and other tradition based styles of music. We maintain a physical and digital online archive.
Expenses $166,223 · Revenue $1,013
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Strachwitz Archive: Cataloging, preserving, digitizing, and curating various collections gathered by Chris Strachwitz and related to his life's work documenting American roots music: photographs, videos, audio recordings, posters, papers, etc.
Expenses $163,918 · Revenue $2,790
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Emerging Projects:Barbara Dane -- Fiscal sponsor for a documentary film being made about this local jazz and blues singer.
Expenses $97,686
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Adam Machado
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $112,580
- From this org
- $107,219
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,361
- Hours/week
- 40
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Laura DeFreyne
Sec/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Seth Kertzer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Tom Diamant
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Mike Kappus
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Larry Batiste
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Laurie Lewis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Nick Spitzer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Davia Nelson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Suzy Thompson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Michael Govea
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
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$375,000
Independent rights for artists
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Related partnerships
Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.
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10341 San Pablo LLC
Excluded · Commerical rental · CA · 50% owned · share of income -$37,231 · share of assets $1,589,291 · general or managing partner
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 18 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202622619349301912
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