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CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

EIN 94-2952469 OAKLAND, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$3,414,639
Expenses 2024
$3,444,896

Program services were 55.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A700
Classification
1000
Street
538 9TH ST STE 210

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES WAS FOUNDED IN 1975 WITH A DEFINED MISSION TO CONNECT CALIFORNIANS TO IDEAS AND ONE ANOTHER IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND OUR SHARED HERITAGE AND DIVERSE CULTURES, INSPIRE CIVIC PARTICIPATION, AND SHAPE OUR FUTURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO CONNECT CALIFORNIANS TO SHARE OUR HERITAGE AND DIVERSE CULTURES AND INSPIRE CIVIC PARTICIPATION.

  • HUMANITIES FOR ALL IS A GRANT PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS LOCALLY-INITIATED PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS THAT RESPOND TO THE NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF CALIFORNIANS, ENCOURAGE GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN HUMANITIES PROGRAMMING, PARTICULARLY BY NEW AND/OR UNDERSERVED AUDIENCES, AND PROMOTES UNDERSTANDING AND EMPATHY AMONG ALL OUR STATE'S PEOPLES IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE A THRIVING DEMOCRACY. QUICK GRANTS (BETWEEN $1,000 AND $5,000) ARE AWARDED THREE TIMES A YEAR FOR SMALL-SCALE PUBLIC HUMANITIES ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE WITHIN A ONE-YEAR PERIOD FROM THE AWARD DATE. PROJECT GRANTS ($10,000 TO $20,000) ARE AWARDED TWICE A YEAR FOR LARGER PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS OF UP TO TWO-YEARS DURATION FROM THE AWARD DATE.

    Expenses $550,221 · Grants $546,270

  • CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES SUPPORTS FOUR CORE GRANTMAKING PROGRAMS WHICH INCLUDE THE HUMANITIES FOR ALL PROJECT GRANTS AND QUICK GRANTS, PREVIOUSLY LISTED, AS WELL AS THE LIBRARY INNOVATION LAB (LIL) PROGRAM, THE CALIFORNIA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT (CDP), AND LITERATURE & MEDICINE. OCCASIONAL STATEWIDE INITIATIVES INCLUDE GRANT MAKING, DIRECT PROGRAMMING, AND PROGRAMMING PARTNERSHIPS. GENERAL PROGRAM EXPENSES SUPPORT PROGRAM-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS PUT ON OR SUPPORTED BY CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES.

    Expenses $1,027,145 · Grants $431,083

  • CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES SUPPORTS PERIODIC INITIATIVES, INCLUDING EQUITY ALIGNMENT AND INFORMED CITIZEN PROGRAMS. THE EQUITY ALIGNMENT EFFORT BEGAN A FEW YEARS AGO AND CONTINUES TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE INTENTIONAL, INFORMED, AND FAIR IN CENTERING EQUITY IN ALL ASPECTS OF OUR WORK. THE INFORMED CITIZEN PROGRAM OR DEMOCRACY AND THE INFORMED CITIZEN EMERGING JOURNALIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AND AMPLIFY STUDENT JOURNALISTS' VOICES AND PERSPECTIVES WHO ARE ENROLLED AT CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

    Expenses $321,694 · Grants $81,691

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rachel Hatch

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Neha Balram

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Mina Para Matlon

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Oliver Rosales

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Thomas K Arnold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Genevieve Carpio

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Shiva Farivar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Fritz Friedman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Nilofar Gardezi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Rafael Lemus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Gil Robertson IV

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Bidhan Chandra Roy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Jennifer Steele

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Daryle Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Penelope Wong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Rick Noguchi

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $179,496
    From this org
    $179,496
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,496
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $179,496

  • Felicia Kelley

    DIRECTOR OF PROJECT & EVAL

    Total calculated
    $130,577
    From this org
    $130,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Lightfoot

    DIRECTOR OF MEDIA/JOURNALI

    Total calculated
    $128,389
    From this org
    $128,389
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brett Connor

    DATABASE/GRANTS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $124,336
    From this org
    $124,336
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Marika Garcia

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $108,666
    From this org
    $108,666
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,414,639
    Expenses
    $3,444,896
    Contributions
    $3,391,632
    Grants paid
    $1,059,044
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,163,451
    Expenses
    $4,107,494
    Contributions
    $3,139,877
    Grants paid
    $1,818,345
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,719,623
    Expenses
    $3,663,193
    Contributions
    $3,719,383
    Grants paid
    $1,395,151

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,891,682
    Expenses
    $6,055,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,781,512

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,115,195
    Expenses
    $4,758,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,080,041

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,895,471
    Expenses
    $3,301,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,716,228

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,991,156
    Expenses
    $2,983,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,863,896

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,991,156
    Expenses
    $2,983,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,863,896

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,513,554
    Expenses
    $2,514,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,383,481

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,408,875
    Expenses
    $2,382,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,283,337

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.