The luggage store/509 Cultural Center is a non profit organization, founded in 1987. We received our non profit status in November 1989. We are one of San Francisco’s premier non profit multidisciplinary arts organizations. Our gallery exhibitions, performing arts, public art and educational programs are dedicated to cultural equity and broadening social and aesthetic networks. Our programming is designed to encourage the flow of images and ideas between different cultural, ethnic and economic communities.
Please make your donation/contribution to the luggage store/509 Cultural Center via check, money order, , cash, credit card (donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by the law)
Please support the luggage store and its programs by purchasing tee shirts, catalogs and records or by purchasing art.
The Luggage Store gratefully acknowledges its funders:
Current Funders
The Someland Foundation
Past Funders
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Asian Cultural Council
California Arts Council
Fleishhacker Foundation
Furlotti Family Foundation
The Further Foundation
Gerbode Foundation
Grants for the Arts of the Hotel Tax Fund
The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Herringer Family Foundation
The City and County of San Francisco, Community Challenge Program
The James Irvine Foundation
The LEF Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco Beautiful
The San Francisco Foundation
The Seed Fund
TheSomeland Foundation
The San Francisco Art Commission/Cultural Equity Fund
JP Morgan/Chase
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Recent In Kind Donations
RUCA/RVCA
Kytin Design and Fabrication, Oakland, CA
Tree-Axis.com
Christensen Fund.
Anonymous
Employee Matching Program
Lehman Brothers