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SOMARTS

EIN 94-2655955 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,770,911
Expenses 2024
$2,994,834

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A900
Classification
1000
Street
934 BRANNAN ST

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

SOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with space, mentorship, and the support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SOMArts cultivates access to the arts within the Bay Area by collaborating with community-focused artists and organizations. Together, we engage the power of the arts to provoke just and fair inclusion, cultural respect and civic participation.

  • Fiscal SponsorshipsSOMARTS PROVIDES FISCAL SPONSORSHIPS FOR VARIOUS ARTISTS AND EMERGING ORGANIZATIONS, enabling a breadth of fundraising opportunities that would not be available without such sponsorship. THESE ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVE financial management services,GRANT-WRITING ASSISTANCE, AND operational support.

    Expenses $1,336,815 · Grants $352,762

  • Event Rental ProgramHISTORICALLY, SOMARTS TYPICALLY HELPS PRODUCE OVER 90 EVENTS PER YEAR. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 the program began to welcome back clients to our space and the organization helped produce 26 events for other nonprofits and mission-aligned groups.

    Expenses $520,221

  • Exhibition Programs (Gallery)SOMARTS PRODUCES AND SUPPORTS A DYNAMIC RANGE OF EXHIBITIONS IN SUPPORT OF ITSMISSION TO PROMOTE ART ON THE COMMUNITY LEVEL AND FOSTER AN APPRECIATION OF ANDRESPECT FOR ALL CULTURES. THIS INCLUDES SIX LARGE-SCALE EXHIBITIONS EACH YEAR INADDITION TO PROVIDING GUIDANCE, TECHNICAL, AND PUBLICITY SUPPORT FOR two to three EXHIBITIONS AWARDED THROUGH THE CURATORIAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM, ALONG WITH 15-20EXHIBITIONS ANNUALLY THROUGH THE COMMUNITY-CURATED RAMP GALLERY. SOMARTS ANNUALLYPRODUCES OVER 20 EXHIBITION-RELATED CULTURAL LEARNING AND ART-MAKING EVENTS INCLUDING TALKS, PERFORMANCES, AND WORKSHOPS.

    Expenses $515,845

  • Classes, Curatorial Residency, and otherSOMArts annually supports 2-3 emerging curators in producing their own exhibition, selected through an open call for proposals. Attendance for these exhibitions is free and online/virtual gallery attendance through the SOMArts website is also available.

    Expenses $31,743

  • Day of the DeadDia de los Muertos offers a dynamic, free, five-week exhibition annually based on a theme with references to issues of cultural identity and social justice locally and globally.

  • SOMArts occupies space in San Francisco under a lease agreement with the City and County of San Francisco through its Arts Commission (SFAC). The leasing arrangement has been in effect for over 40 years and is subject to annual renewal for a fee of $1. SFAC provides approximately 25,000 square feet of pro-bono facilities and related utilities to SOMArts and the value of this space amounted to $728,018 for the year ended June 30, 2025. The estimated value of the occupied space is based on comparable rent figures obtained from a report issued by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors which provides data on lease rates available for nonprofit organizations.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Maria Jenson

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $139,141
    From this org
    $119,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,335
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robert Goldfarb

    ED-LCD

    Total calculated
    $107,815
    From this org
    $106,748
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,067
    Hours/week
    40

  • Trisha Lagaso Goldberg

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Anderson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Burger

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Waltemade

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yennga Khuong

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stella Lochman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dania Cabello

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jess Bullock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mitch Grummon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Woody Hanson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paola de la Calle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,770,911
    Expenses
    $2,994,834
    Contributions
    $2,433,550
    Grants paid
    $352,762
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,194,976
    Expenses
    $3,562,005
    Contributions
    $2,896,088
    Grants paid
    $725,855
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,528,283
    Expenses
    $3,160,783
    Contributions
    $3,339,963
    Grants paid
    $147,855

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
    $2,631,622
    Expenses
    $2,526,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,482,935

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,930,057
    Expenses
    $1,694,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,339,594

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,783,253
    Expenses
    $1,888,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,027,868

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,830,724
    Expenses
    $1,771,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $982,276

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,534,683
    Expenses
    $1,462,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $896,969

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,534,683
    Expenses
    $1,462,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $896,969

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,387,953
    Expenses
    $1,424,427
    Assets (EOY)
    $812,418

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,600,194
    Expenses
    $1,318,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $825,223

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,025,222
    Expenses
    $1,887,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $618,628

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,733,556
    Expenses
    $1,701,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $565,433

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.