San Francisco, CA

PRECITA EYES MURALISTS

EIN 94-2614023

Arts, Culture & Heritage Community Arts & Public Programs

Mission

As an inner-city, community-based mural arts organization, Precita Eyes Muralists works to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate the public about the process and history of community mural art through collaborative mural production, education, and public engagement.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About PRECITA EYES MURALISTS

Precita Eyes Muralists is a San Francisco–based nonprofit community mural arts organization founded in 1977. It operates a mural arts and visitors center in the Mission/Bernal Heights area and focuses on collaborative public mural production, mural preservation, arts education, and public tours. The organization runs year-round classes and workshops for children, youth and adults, organizes community painting projects and mural restoration, and provides public mural tours and an onsite store. In the last 2–3 years Precita Eyes has led community tile-mosaic workshops for a Precita Park restroom exterior mural, continued its long-standing Urban Youth Arts Festival, and resumed in-person intensive mural education workshops and public programming. Precita Eyes is an active, donor-facing 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit with a long history of community murals and education; its most recent publicly reported Form 990 (2024) shows organizational revenues and assets consistent with an operating arts center and program delivery.

Notable achievements

Decades of community mural work

Established in 1977, Precita Eyes has sustained four decades of community-based mural practice, helping originate and maintain the Mission District mural movement.

500+ murals (community impact)

Over the course of its history Precita Eyes and its artists have been credited with the production, restoration, or direct support of hundreds of community murals across San Francisco and the Bay Area, making it a central institution in the city’s public-art landscape.

Ongoing youth and education programming

The organization runs recurring youth mural programs and the long-running Urban Youth Arts Festival, plus classes, intensive workshops and community tile-mosaic projects that engage local residents, students and elders in hands-on public art.

At a glance

Total assets: $815K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 94-2614023
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: www.precitaeyes.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Recognized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt arts organization (IRS) with public Form 990 filings and a long-standing nonprofit status dating to the 1990s ruling year.

Documented in major nonprofit data services and charity profiles (e.g., ProPublica/Nonprofit Explorer and Charity Navigator) as an active arts nonprofit using EIN 94-2614023.

Featured and partnered with local cultural institutions and city arts programs (including museum and municipal mural program collaborations) and acknowledged in local media for its role in preserving and advancing Mission District mural culture.

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