Mosaic America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463114496
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087186729
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $955,915
- Expenses
- $866,710
- Assets
- $1,318,391
- Liabilities
- $18,423
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- USHA SRINIVASAN (President & CEO)
- Sally Flinchbaugh (Co President)
People named in this filing
- USHA SRINIVASAN (President & CEO)
- SUYASHA ALVE (Senior Program)
- APARNA SRINIVASAN (Principal)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mosaic America is a nonprofit organization that strengthens communities, cultivates belonging, and catalyzes inclusion through inter-cultural and co-created art. Our mission is to activate social cohesion by connecting people to place, history, and each other. We do this by identifying and authentically representing the community-in-place; catalyzing inclusion through participative and co-created expressions, and cultivating belonging through consistent and purposeful multicultural gatherings.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mosaic Festival is Mosaic Americas annual celebration of arts and culture in and around San Jos. It serves as a culminating event for a years worth of commissioned and curated works featuring Mosaic Americaspartners through performances, interactive workshops, exhibitions, vendor space, and more. Our team of artists uses inspiration from their cultures and art forms to collaborate on unique performances and expressions that highlight the common threads of our shared American story.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.1%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.1% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $646K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.