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SAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART

EIN 95-6134270 SN LUIS OBISP, CA

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Revenue 2024
$779,242
Expenses 2024
$886,322

Program services were 64.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A400
Classification
2000
Street
1010 BROAD 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

ART MATTERS: WE ENRICH OUR COMMUNITY BY USING ART AS A DOORWAY TO DEEPER INSIGHT AND CONNECTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VISUAL ARTS EXPERIENCES FOR ALL AGES AND PRESERVATION OF A PERMANENT ART COLLECTION

  • LOCATED ON HISTORIC MISSION PLAZA IN DOWNTOWN SAN LUIS OBISPO, THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART IS A PREMIER VISUAL ARTS VENUE ON THE CENTRAL COAST OF CALIFORNIA. ROTATING EXHIBITIONS ARE FEATURED IN THE MUSEUM'S THREE ONSITE GALLERIES, AS WELL AS AN ANNUAL ROTATING MURAL PROJECT ON THE MUSEUM'S EXTERIOR. THE MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION CONSERVES THE REGION'S ARTISTIC LEGACY.

    Expenses $375,192

  • ART EDUCATION PROGRAMMING INCLUDING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN, AS WELL AS WEEKLY FREE DOCENT TOURS OF THE EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW. FREE MONTHLY FAMILY ART DAYS ENGAGE GENERATIONS TO LEARN ABOUT AND CREATE ART. THE MUSEUM HOSTS GUIDED GROUP GALLERY TOURS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS, ALSO ADMISSION FREE. THE MUSEUM ALSO HOSTS FREE ARTIST TALKS AND CURRICULUM SUPPORT FOR K-12 CLASSES.

    Expenses $195,927

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.

  • Ermina Karim

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Bell

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Trudie Safreno

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cheryl Cuming

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Crotser

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Dunn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Feltman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lindsey Harn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beya Makekau

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Richards

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leann Standish

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,900
    From this org
    $133,900
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $779,242
    Expenses
    $886,322
    Contributions
    $784,337
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $712,234
    Expenses
    $782,783
    Contributions
    $662,503
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $845,605
    Expenses
    $1,015,965
    Contributions
    $939,501
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $756,916
    Expenses
    $815,146
    Assets (EOY)
    $945,969

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $735,629
    Expenses
    $474,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,522,091

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,652
    Expenses
    $470,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,271,058

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $811,034
    Expenses
    $888,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,717,315

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $818,897
    Expenses
    $820,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,906,759

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $907,848
    Expenses
    $713,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,868,581

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $923,651
    Expenses
    $465,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,632,402

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $839,368
    Expenses
    $436,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,811,083

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $603,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,329,526

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $549,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,177,037

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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