2025-08-20T10:21:38-07:00 2025-06-30 264002056 Pazahanick & Associates 4123 93rd Ave N Brooklyn Park MN 55443 990 2024-07-01 411618333 ART START ARTS 6516982787 1459 St Clair Ave St Paul MN 55105 Anne Sawyer Executive Director 6516982787 2025-08-20 1 1 Nancy Pazahanick P02449030 7632264812 2025-08-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Anne Sawyer 1459 St Clair Ave St Paul MN 55105 506808 0 X artstart.org X 1988 MN The mission of ArtStart, founded in 1988, has remained constant over its 36-year history: to foster artistic creativity and illuminate the connections among people, ideas, and the environment. Our artists engage children, families, and communities in quality arts education experiences that investigate environmental and cultural themes and use recycled materials. We say we do our work at the intersection of where art, environmental stewardship, and culture come together which enables us to address diversity, equity, and accessibility issues as they relate to our paradigm. 8 7 9 15 0 0 201046 152802 285580 342674 1609 11332 0 0 488235 506808 0 0 0 0 149933 178136 0 0 23492 244673 265853 394606 443989 93629 62819 300287 749436 83859 470189 216428 279247 The mission of ArtStart, founded in 1988, has remained constant over its 36-year history: to foster artistic creativity and illuminate the connections among people, ideas, and the environment. Our artists engage children, families, and communities in quality arts education experiences that investigate environmental and cultural themes and use recycled materials. We say we do our work at the intersection of where art, environmental stewardship, and culture come together which enables us to address diversity, equity, and accessibility issues as they relate to our paradigm. 0 0 112152 0 131428 : 1.) ArtStart's ArtScraps, providing low-cost, recycled materials to families, professional and young artists and organizations to further our message of environmental stewardship through the arts. ArtStart's ArtScraps Creative Materials and Ideas store: for the first 10 months, we were open to the public 3 days a week, Thurs-Sat. In June, we added Sundays, due to popular demand. We continued to make gains in revenue. Overall, revenue for the store was up almost 22% in FY25, from $94,162 in taxable income in FY24 to $121,340 in FY25. 170126 15000 207317 2.) Adult and Youth Development that includes community workshops in libraries and with social service organizations, school residencies, our Studio A in-store classes, and summer cultural arts camps to further our message of respect for our environment and honoring the arts of diverse cultures while employing artists from those cultures. ArtStart continued to implement community workshops working with the entire seven-county Metro library system, Washington Co., ScottCo., Hennepin Co., Ramsey Co., Carver Co., Anoka Co., Dakota Co., and the Saint Paul Public Library, as well as the Great River Regional Library system and those in southern Minnesota. Workshops emphasized cultural in twelve Minnesota counties that were free to the public. arts and reuse art workshops. In FY25 we provided 124 library workshops. * ArtStart implemented eight school residencies through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, plus twenty five additional residencies that were earned income. * It was a record summer for camp registrations. Our Passport to India Through the Arts and Teen Camp Create were filled with over 370 children ages 4 -17 years attending. In addition, for the second year we held our new Creative Writing Camp in June in Prospect Park, Minneapolis, and saw higher numbers than the previous year. ArtStart also provided client art camps to Sunny Hollow in July of 2024, and to St. Paul Urban Tennis's Artful Aces camp. * We added some new classes to our Studio A offerings for teens and adults, including Anishinaabe beading, painting on glass, and some artful and reuse programs like artful mending cigar jewelry boxes. Our popular poetry readings continued in the fall and spring, featuring both accomplished published Minnesota poets and young poets from Cristo Rey High School. 95004 15775 39425 3. ArtStart Special Projects and Commissions provide emerging and experienced artists with income, training and support. This includes many program expenses that support the whole organization. * We provided artful reuse activities through a STAR grant at ten events in St Paul, including Irish Fair, Cinco de mayo, St Paul Pride, Twin Cities Jazz Fest and the Flint Hills Children's Festival at the Ordway Theater. We also served the greater Twin Cities area with thirteen additional workshops. * The board continued its fundraising initiatives holding a Fall and a Spring campaign through GiveMN. We saw an increase of more than 13% in our programming revenue overall. 0 0 0 377282 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 45 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 MN X Anne Sawyer 6516982787 1459 St Clair Ave Saint Paul MN 55105 Anne Sawyer Executive Director 40 0 X 56334 0 8610 Lois Eliason Board Secretary 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Sara Dovre Wudali Board President 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Phil Gurbada Board Treaurer 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Jodi Gustafson Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Nancy Randall Dana Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Isabela Rose Larsen Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jeanette Lutter-Gardella Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 56334 0 8610 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94333 58469 0 152802 Workshops, Classes, Camp, Residencies 611699 215032 215032 0 0 Artscraps Store 459000 127642 127642 0 0 0 0 0 0 342674 11332 11332 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 506808 354006 0 0 0 57548 37406 11651 8491 99236 92205 7031 0 8610 5597 1722 1291 12742 10532 1519 691 6953 6953 32026 21811 3510 6705 3355 3171 0 184 4914 3585 974 355 5072 1136 1481 2455 40799 33581 5016 2202 2844 2844 734 473 261 610 610 8809 6695 1675 439 Program Expenses 144680 144680 0 0 Bank and Credit Card Fees 12345 12129 216 Dues and Subscriptions 1367 167 596 604 Staff Training 258 258 0 0 1087 1012 75 443989 377282 43215 23492 17972 93040 185789 165046 69349 27317 14154 20590 0 0 0 0 10939 12466 443574 12597 430977 2084 300287 749436 2777 6943 81082 78310 384936 83859 470189 X 130623 237872 85805 41375 216428 279247 300287 749436 62819 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 179953 184790 130826 156460 152802 804831 129010 167961 228524 285579 342674 1153748 308963 352751 359350 442039 495476 1958579 1958579 14 17 175 788 11332 12326 14 17 175 788 11332 12326 0 0 308977 352768 359525 442827 506808 1970905 0.99375 0.99945 0.00625 0.00055 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 $823 from a Square deposit we could not trace who it was from and $2975 reconciliation of a clearing account RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 53000 0 53000 376503 0 0 376503 10589 0 9115 1474 0 0 0 0 3482 0 3482 0 430977 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Board of Directors reviews and approves the 990 before it is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c A conflict of interest form is filled out annually by each board member. If there is a conflict, it is brought to the Board's full attention and a decision is made if the conflict requires the Board member to resign. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 A copy of the 990 is filed with the Attorney General's office and is a public record. Other governing documents are available upon request to the office of Artstart.