ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A20

Classification

1000

Street

10341 SAN PABLO AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• DOWN HOME MUSIC FOUNDATION

  EIN 33-2551770

• LES BLANK FILMS INC

  EIN 46-1550760

• SOURCE LIGHT

  EIN 33-3996100

Mission and programs · 2025

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,491,939

  Expenses

  $917,632

  Contributions

  $1,414,245

  Grants paid

  $375,000

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,315,728

  Expenses

  $504,676

  Contributions

  $2,291,553

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $420,830

  Expenses

  $707,664

  Contributions

  $388,832

  Grants paid

  $10,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $932,069

  Expenses

  $542,159

  Contributions

  $922,039

  Grants paid

  $22,955

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

  $771,429

  Expenses

  $592,632

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,564,969

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $607,702

  Expenses

  $523,662

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,209,799

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $485,509

  Expenses

  $468,759

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,085,797

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $351,984

  Expenses

  $359,734

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,053,344

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $403,566

  Expenses

  $217,239

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,040,738

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $194,182

  Expenses

  $144,040

  Assets (EOY)

  $860,412

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $223,702

  Expenses

  $152,493

  Assets (EOY)

  $805,269

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $193,909

  Assets (EOY)

  $633,466

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

• Source Light

  $375,000

  2025 · Independent rights for artists

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $55,198

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · Arts & Culture

• THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2024 · ARTS

• THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2024 · ARTS

• THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  2022 · ARTS

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $20,000

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,750

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,500

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2023 · ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $9,250

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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