Sanchez Art Center

What it reported doing in 2024

Exibition Program The year began with exciting concurrent exhibitions including well known multi-media artist Thomas Campbell, with an exhibition titled Shape Shifting and other astral lint balls curated by Susan Hillhouse Leask. Campbells renown stretches across societal cultures including art, surf and skateboarding. Over 200 attending the opening night reception and 70 returned for the closing talk, even on Super Bowl Sunday. In the East Gallery, a moving show, Citizen Joy: Views of Democracy highlighted through a variety of visual art mediums, what we all benefit from living in a democratic republic. Community events welcomed attendees to both share at a communal table to offer their vision of democracy and have it documented on a tablecloth, and also to create individual right birds portraying the value of both our rights and what we appreciate about the services we receive from the federal government, from parks and libraries, to the post office public art programs, peaceful protest and voting. In the West Gallery, the Art Guild of Pacifica got into the theme with a members show titled Ode to Joy. Over the course of the year, the galleries brought inspiration to 5,200 (duplicated) visitors, while two exhibitions (Citizen Joy, Views of Democracy and the 2024 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition) also provided the opportunity to view from anywhere with a network connected device via the Sanchez Art Center Virtual Galleries. Sanchez Art Center expands opportunities to artists from a broader geographic area to share their work each year, with the Left Coast Annual (LCA), for artists in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, and through the intense creative journey of the 5050 Show, where artists create 50 small works over 50 days, being open to artists throughout California. The 2025 LCA Juror Carin Adams, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California, selected 50 pieces out of over 800 submitted. In remarks about the selections, Adams noted, Reflecting the diversity of the Left Coast was the guiding principle for jurying this exhibition. The result is the confluence of distinct stories and individual practices with artworks representing varying degrees of abstraction and representation in a multitude of media. Paired with the 2025 Left Coast.Annual were the 2024 LCA Awards winners, sharing the work of three female artists at various states of their career: Kimiko Kogure, Kayley Jane Dykman and Sally K Smith, selected by 2024 juror Janna Keegan, Associate Curator, contemporary art and programming, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.The 17 th Annual 5050 Show, juried for the first time by a duo of gallerists, Melissa Kreisa and Rose Sellery, co-directors of M. K. Contemporary Art in Santa Cruz, dove into the 185 entries to create the show. Recollections of place and expression of emotions were strong themes in the show. Grounding oneself through nature and studies of light and water, mingle with explorations of people through portraiture. Concern for the planet and current events also threaded their way through the exhibition.Additional exhibitions in the Main Gallery included: William Rhodes, Throughlines, looking back reaching forward, curated by TaVee Lee with Transmission Gallery in Oakland. Lee notes of Rhodes more than 30 year artmaking career, In considering the arc of his work over time, one can readily recognize the intertwining ideas evident in his various creative pursuits; the legacies of African culture, the enduring impact of enforced migration through enslavement, the value of generational experience and the importance of creating community in the face of tremendous challenges, all while reaching toward a hopeful future. A duo show of ceramic works by Maria Porges Nancy Selvin titled Contained was curated by Philip E. Linhares. The works shown were inspired by traditional forms from many countries and periods in history, as well as the personal lived experiences of the artists, and was featured

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
• Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings