2025-11-29T18:58:16-07:00 2025-06-30 990EZ 2025-01-01 882243875 DESERT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC DESE 7604858774 41995 Boardwalk Suite J Palm Desert CA 92211 Jose Sta Ana Treasurer 4156323706 2025-11-15 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.desertarts.org/ X X 108314 X 178 97033 11102 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 108314 1500 0 43927 35760 1490 0 37297 119974 -11660 34992 0 23332 X 78988 3415 0 0 17816 20667 96804 24082 61812 750 34992 23332 The purpose of Desert Performing Arts Association is to provide geographically and financially accessible marching arts programs to developing performers in the Coachella Valley. We partner with a local school district to provide after school color guard programs for elementary and middle school students. We also provide marching winds and winter guard programs for young adults. Starting this year, we will also be providing scholarships to color guard performers who are in college or going to college to help further their education. California Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP) Partnership with DSUSD - We served 60 elementary and middle school aged students through an after school color guard program within Desert Sands Unified School District. This program goes from September 2024 through May 2025. Students in this program performed at 7 local performing arts showcases which helped create visibility for the performing art and for their school sites. Through participating in this after school color guard program, we hope to strengthen the vertical articulation of the color guard activity between our elementary, middle school, and high schools within the district. Our long term vision is that our organization provides an opportunity to coach and teach after students graduate high school. Prior to our organization existing, many advanced performers would leave the Coachella Valley to seek performance and coaching opportunities elsewhere. Now that we are providing this type of programming, it can encourage performers to continue to reside in the Coachella Valley and create a stronger community around this performing art. We are also continuing to spread our reach into more schools, giving young students the opportunity to participate in color guard who may have never had the opportunity to do so in the past. Another byproduct of this service is that we will increase the numbers of students enrolled in color guard programs at our local area high schools. While this will take several years to fully realize as we wait for students to advance into higher grade levels, we did expose 60 elementary and middle school students to color guard who otherwise would not have if our service did not exist this year. We project to double our number of students that we service moving into next school year. 0 35453 Del Sol Winds and Las Palmas Winter Guard are two of our independent programs for young adult performers. We served 15 people who became performing members for the 2025 season. We served an additional 50+ people who came to one-day clinics that we put on to teach young performers about winds, marching, and color guard. For these two ensembles, we bring in world class designers, choreographers, and clinicians who truly help elevate the marching arts in the Coachella Valley. We were able to take our 15 young performers to Dayton, Ohio for the 2025 WGI World Championships competition. Prior to this event, about half of our performing members had never been on an airplane before. Many reported a great sense of pride being able to represent our hometown on an international stage. Similar to our after school color guard program, as a long term goal, we hope that providing these programs will encourage performers to stay in the Coachella Valley, and continue to promote and develop the marching arts by becoming instructors and educators in the area. Out of our 15 performers, 7 of them have been active as instructors or educators in our local elementary, middle, and high school color guard or marching band programs. I have also had 3 different band directors in the area approach me about hiring some of our performers to help instruct their school programs. 0 56041 91494 Matthew Richards Executive Director and Board Member 40 68000 0 0 Duane Aldridge President 1 0 0 0 John Gray Vice President 1 0 0 0 Jose Sta Ana Treasurer 3 0 0 0 Megan Ventura Secretary 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Jose Sta Ana 41995 Boardwalk Suite J Palm Desert CA 92211 4156323706 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 7034 106433 113467 0 0 0 7034 106433 113467 113467 1 1 113468 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 $750 Scholarship grants each to two deserving high school students Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Membership and Entrance Fees;754|Supplies;1381|Uniforms and T Shirts;6084|Travel;21546|Year End Recognition Event;2386|General And Administrative Expenses;1217|Depreciation;3879|Taxes and Licenses;50^Total;37297^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^Membership Dues Receivable;1067|Band Equipment;19600^Total;20667^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 One of the $750 Scholarship Grant Checks was not yet cashed by the student as of year-end