ADOBE COMMUNITY BOOKS AND ARTS PROJECT INC
To operate Adobe Books as a community bookstore, gallery, and performance space that supports neighborhood arts, literacy, and free public programming in San Francisco’s Mission District.
About ADOBE COMMUNITY BOOKS AND ARTS PROJECT INC
Adobe Community Books and Arts Project (Adobe Books) is a volunteer-run, worker/member-managed community bookstore, gallery, and performance venue located at 3130 24th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The organization programs free and low-cost literary, music, and visual-arts events, offers meeting space to neighborhood groups, and operates as a neighborhood cultural hub. Adobe Books traces its local community role through partnerships and memberships including the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Litquake, Paseo Artistico, MAPP, and the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives. The organization’s website notes it transitioned into a formal nonprofit structure in recent years while continuing longstanding activities such as donating books to a local prison literacy project and hosting hundreds of public events annually. Adobe Books has received municipal recognition for its local contribution (listed on San Francisco’s Legacy Business registry) and lists a sustained local presence and ongoing public programming as central to its mission and impact.
Notable achievements
California nonprofit incorporation
Organized as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and established formal nonprofit governance and leadership roles to sustain community programming.
Federal tax-exempt recognition
Operates with an EIN of 87-4123823 and is recorded as a 501(c)(3) public charity; the organization’s transition to formal nonprofit operation is noted on its website.
Community programming milestone
Consistently produces hundreds of free or low-cost public events each year (readings, music, exhibitions and community meetings) and donates books to local literacy initiatives.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $24K
- Annual revenue
- $84K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 87-4123823
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Website
- www.adobebooks.com
- On Mahalo since
- April 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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