2024-11-08T16:03:57-08:00 2023-12-31 994382109 JANNE FECHT CPA 19300 RINALDI STREET 7339 PORTER RANCH CA 91327 990EZ 2023-01-01 261292402 THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY MUSE 8183479665 18904 NORDHOFF STREET NORTHRIDGE CA 91324 JACKIE LANGA President & CEO 2024-11-08 true true JANNE FECHT P00511173 7472393267 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X X www.themuseumsfv.org X X 39885 X 39327 558 0 0 0 0 39885 1823 509 30813 33145 6740 185779 192519 X 13349 20071 172545 172482 185894 192553 115 34 185779 192519 The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit history, arts and culture museum that not only collects, displays and preserves artifacts but gives a central voice to the distinctive histories of all populations from the SFV whose cultures, races, religions and ideas contributed to the Valleys character, growth and development. The Museum is currently free to the public and offers a variety of exhibitions and programs; i.e. a history/artist speaker series, public art initiatives (PAI), Heritage Day events, and museum skill-training for volunteers which includes student interns from Cal State, Northridge. This CSUN partnership program engages students in research, archiving, docenting, exhibit development and metrics gathering. The Museum primarily pays its operating costs through grants and donations from walk-in visitors and museum events as well as limited gift-shop sales of consignment items from those SFV artists and history speakers who volunteer as LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS GRANT:DCA MATCH GRANT [EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS] - $4,250.00. THE MUSEUM RECEIVED THIS GRANT TO PRODUCE AND PRESENT TWO OR MORE EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS TO ACCOMPANY ITS WALK OF STORIES PUBLIC EXHIBITION. THE MUSEUM DEVELOPED AND PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC TWO HANDS-ON ART WORKSHOPS LED BY TWO PROFESSIONAL GRANT-PAID VALLEY ARTISTS AND FREE TRI-FOLD EDUCATIONAL BROCHURES THAT FOCUSED ON MURAL PAINTING AND SCULPTING IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. THE MUSEUM WAS ALLOWED TO MEET ITS $4,250 MATCH OBLIGATION IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 12 BY A 70% IN-KIND AND 30% MONETARY MATCH. THROUGH A $2,000.00 PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION DONATION FROM ANCHOR EDUCATION, A $1,000 IN-KIND MATCH OF VOLUNTEERS WHO HELPED DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, ASSISTED ARTISTS AT PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS AND $1,273.00 OF MUSEUM GENERAL FUNDS, WHICH WAS TIMELY MATCHED. THESE WORKSHOPS WERE PRESENTED AT BOTH THE MUSEUMS FREE MAGIC RENASSANCE BOOK FAIRE IN APRIL 16, 2023 (FOR UNDERSERVED AND IMPOVERSHED CHILDREN) AND MAY 21, 2023 PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC ARTS & CULTURAL FAIR WITH AN APPROXIMATE COMBINED ATTENDENCE OF 1,500 PEOPLE OF MANY CULTURES. 4250 4250 PART OF CAL-STATE NORTHRIDGE DIVERSITY & EQUITY INNOVATION (DEIG) GRANT:AS A FOCUSED PARTNER PARTY TO THE OVERALL $36,410 CAL-STATE NORTHRIDGE DIVERSITY & EQUITY INNOVATION (DEIG) GRANT DESCRIBED BELOW, THE MUSEUM RECEIVED A CSUN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PROGRAMMING & COMMUNITY PARTNER HONORARIA FOR ITS VITALIZING OURMUSEUM PROGRAM - $6,750.00. THE OVERALL CSUN DEIG GRANT WAS ESTABLISHED TO ADDRESS STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGH SELF-IDENTIFICATION WITH CSUN AND THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY BY PROVIDING CSUN STUDENTS APPLIED CAREER MENTORSHIP FROM THE MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATORS AS WELL AS TO GAIN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE THROUGH SUPERVISED CO-DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMING FOCUSED ON HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED HISTORIES OF THE SFV, AMONG OTHER THINGS. STUDENT COHORTS WERE ARRANGED INTO FOUR TEAMS BASED ON THE PROJECT AND MUSEUMS NEEDS: 1) OUTREACH FUNDRAISING TEAM; 2) ARCHIVAL TEAM, 3) FESTIVAL TEAM ORGANIZING THE MUSUMS 2ND ANNUAL PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC ARTS & CULTURAL FESTIVAL, AND 4) A SMALLER MANAGERIAL TEAM. THE MUSEUM USED ITS HONORARIA TO IMPLEMENT AND SUBSIDIZE MUSEUM MARKETING/ADVERTISING, CONTINUE ARCHIVING PROGRAM AND ARTIFACT PURCHASES, AND PARTIALLY SPONSOR AND FUND PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC ARTS & CULTURAL FESTIVAL EXPENSES ,INCLUDING PERFORMERS, COLLATERALS, ETC., RELATED DIRECTLY TO VITALIZING OUR MUSEUM. CSUN ALSO ENGAGED 11 STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND PAID THEM DIRECTLY FROM THE DEIG GRANT, NOT THE MUSEUMS HONORARIA PORTION OF THE GRANT. THE STUDENTS OFFERED OVER 832 HOURS OF IN-KIND SERVICES TO MEET THE MUSEUMS REQUIRED GOALS. THE MAY 21, 2023 PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC ARTS & CULTURAL FAIR WAS THE MUSEUMS MOST SUCCESSFUL TO DATE DRAWING INTO ATTENDENCE 1,209 PEOPLE OF MANY DIVERSE CULTURES 6750 6750 GRANADA HILLS SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL GRANT - $1,500.00:THE PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC POPULATION IS A SIGNIFICANT VALLEY COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY IN NORTHRIDGE. THE MUSEUMS FIRST PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC FESTIVAL IN 2022, BROUGHT IN A TOTAL ATTENDENCE OF 750 VISITORS. AFTER EVALUATING THE FESTIVALS METRICS AND FEEDBACK, THE MUSEUM ASCERTAINED IT NEEDED MORE EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING ELEMENTS TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. FOR YEAR 2 THE MUSEUM WISHED TO DEVELOP A NEW TABLE-TO-TABLE COUNTER CARD EXHIBIT REFLECTING FACT-LETS AND HISTORIES OF EACH FESTIVAL VENDOR AND PERFORMERS PAN-ASIAN HERITAGE OR RELATIONSHIP TO THE PAN-ASIAN COMMUNITY. A PASSPORT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WOULD ALSO BE IMPLEMENTED TO ENTICE EACH CHILD TO VISIT EACH OF THE VENDORS BOOTHS. WITH THE MAJOR FESTIVAL ELEMENTS ALREADY COMMITTED TO BEING FUNDED THROUGH CSUNS HONORARIA, THE MUSEUM APPROACHED THE GRANADA HILLS SOUTH N.C. TO FUND THE COUNTER CARD PROGRAM. THEY APPROVED THE GRANT THAT COVERS THE COST OF THE PRINTING AND ASSEMBLAGE OF THE COUNTER CARDS, HIRING 3 MORE PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC PERFORMERS, AND, BECAUSE OF THE INTENSE VALLEY HEAT, FUNDING FREE BOTTLED WATER FOR ALL VISITORS, PERFORMERS AND PARTICIPANTS AT THE FESTIVAL. THE RESULT WAS THAT THE MUSEUM WAS ABLE TO PROMOTE ITS MISSION AS AN INSTITUTION WHILE GENERATING A CONNECTION FOR LOCAL PAN-ASIAN/PACIFIC FAMILIES WITH THEIR CULTURES AND HOW THEIR HERITAGES, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE GIVEN LIFE TO THE SFV PAN-ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER BUSIINESSES AND NEIGHBORS LIVING AND RESIDING IN THE VALLEY. 1500 1500 CALIFORNIA ARTS & CULTURE COVID GRANT - $5,000.00:AS A 501(C)(3) ALL-VOLUNTEER NON-PROFIT MUSEUM, THE MUSEUM RECEIVED THIS GRANT FOR GENERAL COSTS SUCH AS RENT AND OTHER EXPENSES TO RECOVER FROM ITS FINANCIAL DECLINE DUE TO ITS CLOSURE DURING COVID (FROM MARCH, 2019 THROUGH NOVEMBER 2020) AND RELOCATION ON DECEMBER 2020 TO ANOTHER SPACE WHERE IT COULD RECREATE COVID COMPLIANT EXHIBITS (INSIDE AND OUTSIDE). ADDITIONALLY, THE FUNDS WOULD ALSO HANDLE SOME FINAL RECOVERY ISSUES BECAUSE OF THE MUSEUMS TEMPORARY CLOSURE. UPON ITS DECEMBER 2022 RE-OPENING IN A NEW MUSEUM SPACE, THE HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE MUSEUM HAD TO CREATE NEW EXHIBITS (BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE) AND RESTRUCTURE ITS ENTIRE PROGRAM AND RECREATE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION. IT REPOPULATED ITS VOLUNTEER STAFF WHICH THEY LOST DURING COVID AND RE-INVIGORATED ITS FUNDRAISING PROSPECTS. THE GRANT FUNDS WERE USED TO MANAGE MANY REMAINING GENERAL COSTS SUCH AS RENT, PHONE, INSURANCE AND WEBSITE BILLS. BECAUSE OF THE GRANT BILL RELIEF, IT WAS ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE IN NEW ART-RELATED EXHIBITS SUCH AS OUR OUTSIDE DCA-SPONSORED WALK OF STORIES EXHIBIT. 5000 5000 17500 MICHEL STEVENS CFO 20.00 0 DANA RADKE BOARD MEMBER 4.00 0 JACKIE LANGA President & CEO 30.00 0 CHERI NORUM DEROHANIAN BOARD MEMBER 4.00 0 CRYSTAL JACKSON BOARD MEMBER 15.00 0 ERIC STUART Vice President 5.00 0 SUZANNE SCHELD Secretary 20.00 0 DANA CARL DENTZEL BOARD MEMBER 1.00 0 DILLON ANAYA STUDENT BD MBR 5.00 0 RICHARD CRYER CHAIR OF PAI 4.00 0 DAVID LUSTIG BOARD MEMBER 1.00 0 SANDY CHUKHADARIAN SOCIAL MEDIA 5.00 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false CA JACKIE LANGA 18904 NORDHOFF STREET NORTHRIDGE CA 913243885 8183479665 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 13580 11731 21288 25681 39327 111607 0 0 13580 11731 21288 25681 39327 111607 0 111607 0 0 0 111607 1.00000 1.00000 X Other Expenses.1001 Advertising and Promotion $250 Other Expenses.1009 Depreciation $363 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $1311 Other Expenses.1 GRANT EXPENSES $17500 Other Expenses.2 STORAGE $4800 Other Expenses.3 E-COMMERCE $1800 Other Expenses.4 TELEPHONE/INTERNET $1614 Other Expenses.5 EVENTS $1380 Other Expenses.6 WEBSITE HOSTING/EMAIL FEES $867 Other Expenses.8 MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXP $300 Other Expenses.9 GROUND MAINTENANCE $250 Other Expenses.10 TAXES AND LICENSES $202 Other Expenses.11 MERCHANT FEES $176 Other Assets.1002 Furniture and Fixtures - Beginning $2177 Furniture and Fixtures - Ending $1814 Other Assets.1 COLLECTION - Beginning $170368 COLLECTION - Ending $170668 Total Liabilities.1 SALES TAX LIABILITY - Beginning $115 SALES TAX LIABILITY - Ending $34 Statement Note 1 DURING 2022, TWO SCULPTURES WERE DONATED TO THE MUSEUM ALONG WITH A VERY LARGE JACOB PELL COLLECTION OF ART PIECES, THE VALUES OF WHICH WERE ALL DETERMINED BY APPRAISAL. THE AMOUNTS WERE $9,900, $9,900 AND $85,568 FOR A TOTAL OF $105,368.