SOMArts
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 863-1414
Website: www.somarts.org
Contact:
Jena M. Schwirtz
Director of Administrative Operations
jena@somarts.org
Year organization became a 501(c)(3): 1979
Year of first fiscal sponsorship: 1998
Number of sponsored projects: 10
Fiscal sponsorship fee:
8% if less than $150,000 has been raised across all contributions in total for the purposes of the project; 6% if at least $150,000 but less than $500,000 has been raised across all contributions in total for the purposes of the project: 6% if the donation is made by check or 8% if the donation is made by credit card and/or online; 5% if at least $500,000 but less than $1,000,000 has been raised across all contributions in total for the purposes of the project: 5% if the donation is made by check or 8% if the donation is made by credit card and/or online; 2% if $1,000,000 or more has been raised across all contributions in total for the purposes of the project: 4% if the donation is made by check or 8% if the donation is made by credit card and/or online.
Eligibility criteria:
- Aligned mission/values: SOMArts cultivates access to the arts in 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.
- Geographic: San Francisco Bay Area
- Type of service: Arts & Culture
Types of projects or services we sponsor:
- Arts and culture
Services we offer projects:
- Bill paying
- Bookkeeping/accounting
- Organizational development
Based on Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right: Our model(s) of fiscal sponsorship are:
- Model C, Preapproved Grant Relationship
Organization description:
SOMArts is an independent nonprofit that operates the South of Market Cultural Center. SOMArts is beloved in San Francisco as a cross-cultural, community-built space where cutting-edge events and counterculture commingle with traditional art forms in a way that is open, engaging and inspiring. It is an incubator of ideas that lie outside the mainstream of contemporary art funding and consumption. SOMArts’ artistic programs include 3-5 exhibitions and 3 curatorial residencies in the Main Gallery, 12-18 exhibitions by solo artists and groups in the Ramp Gallery, free youth programming developed in collaboration with SFAI City Studio, an annual Day of the Deadexhibition and performance series, a monthly free professional development series for artists co-presented with ArtSpan, the monthly queer performance series The News, and three to four exhibition-related performances and workshops each month, in addition to fiscally sponsoring arts groups and projects that fit with the SOMArts mission.