2026-02-16T10:34:05-07:00 2025-09-30 990EZ 2024-10-01 822910014 UP YOUR ARTS UPYO 3017416698 PO Box 11326 Southport NC 28461 John Keiffer Board of Directors Chair 3017416698 2026-02-15 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://upyourarts.org X X 104274 X 39484 9057 0 0 0 0 0 14880 40853 31871 23862 0 0 0 0 72403 19924 0 0 46697 0 4527 1394 72542 -139 45427 0 45288 X 41795 44327 0 0 3632 1465 45427 45792 0 504 45427 45288 Support creative and performing arts. UYA co-sponsored "Raise Up Your Arts" with the City of Southport (and 17 individual sponsors who donated $250 each) and was held from December 2024-November 2025. This project selected 24 Brunswick County artists (out of a submission pool of more than 70) whose work was displayed on banners hanging from utility poles for six months, May 2025-November 2025, in downtown Southport. An estimated 40,000 people had ongoing visual access. 4250 4438 UYA co-sponsored the 2025 Southport Plein Air Festival with the City of Southport on May 1-3, 2025. Over 75 artists registered for the event at $50 for two days or $75 for three days. At least 275 people attended grant-funded activities free of charge on the third day. 2300 6255 UYA broadcasts a calendar of upcoming live performance events in Brunswick County with an email sent to over 3,000 email subscribers and over 2,700 Facebook followers free of charge, year-round, at a cost of approximately $650/month for digital services. 0 7800 UYA co-sponsored Banding Together: Relief for Western NC with the Spruce Pine NC Police Department to raise supplies and funds to benefit those affected by Hurricane Helene. A concert featuring local bands was held on Oak Island on November 3, 2024, uniting the community to raise over $16,800 and a truckload of supplies to support recovery efforts. 0 564 NC Relief - Special open mic event where $3,000 was raised to support food truck relief to Western NC. 0 48 UYA co-sponsored the annual Winterfest with the City of Southport December 13-14, 2024, providing musicians and audio equipment for the festivities. 0 1200 UYA co-sponsored Opera Sunday with the University of North Carolina Wilmington Music Department in collaboration with The Friends of the Library Southport & Oak Island. Eight operatic vocalists performed for an audience of over 150 people who attended this free open to the public event. 0 50 UYA sponsored the Let's Sing Barbershop Quartet performance at the Southport Community Center on May 9, 2025. This event was free and open to the public. 0 375 UYA was paid $300/night to sponsor a weekly open mic session at American Fish Company in October 2024 and a monthly session from April-October 2025. UYA paid a master of ceremonies @ $100/night + audio to manage the range of participating local musicians and @ $50/night to the provider of and player on a drum set. 0 1550 UYA co-sponsored the "Southport Concert Series" with the City of Southport, Downtown Southport, Inc. and Cape Fear Radio serving on a committee to plan the series and solicit and vet the musical acts. Performances were held on Thursday evenings at Franklin Square Park from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2025. UYA was in charge of managing the musical groups and directing on-site operations. 0 0 UYA ran the community entertainment division of the 2025 North Carolina 4th of July Festival. This involved coordinating with City of Southport staff and festival committee members from January-July 2025, planning and selecting artists, program marketing, and managing the performances of 5 musical groups throughout the annual four-day festival with expected crowds of 50,000. 0 0 22280 John Keiffer President and Director 25 0 0 0 Bob Gentile Board of Directors Chair 20 0 0 0 Rick Kranz Secretary and Director 10 0 0 0 Martin Dorward Treasurer and Director 15 0 0 0 Jake Beamer Director 5 0 0 0 Jenny Brill Director 5 0 0 0 Allison Crowley Director 5 0 0 0 Dawn Drabble Director 15 0 0 0 Jwantana Frink Director 5 0 0 0 Lisa Giordano Director 5 0 0 0 Diana Johnson Director 10 0 0 0 Debra McLendon Director 10 0 0 0 Tina Powers Director 10.00 0 0 0 Peter Rickstins Director 15 0 0 0 Erik Schonher Director 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NC John Kieffer 515 Quarter Master Drive Southport NC 28461 3017416698 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 34096 61236 21500 28315 39484 184631 7971 14066 16855 20546 9057 68495 7653 22420 50383 46639 55733 182828 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49720 97722 88738 95500 104274 435954 435954 49720 97722 88738 95500 104274 435954 1 1 0 0 X 4th Annual Cool & Fancy Gala 35289 0 35289 0 0 0 9559 3600 2090 Birthday Bash 5564 0 5564 0 0 0 1068 300 513 0 40853 0 40853 0 0 0 10627 3900 2603 17130 23723 Schedule G, Part I, Line 1 Up Your Arts is not required to complete Schedule G, Part IV. Gaming activities gross revenue was $14,880 (less than the $15,000 threshold). 4th Annual Cool & Fancy Gala was held September 6, 2025; Birthday Bash was held November 14, 2024. North Carolina state law does not require licensing for non-profit organization raffle sales. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Banding Together: Relief for Western NC $16,853; NC Relief Open Mic $3,071. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Licensing & regulation $1,259; membership dues $135. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Sales tax payable $507, Miscellaneous revenue ($3). Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 FY 2024-25: Sales tax refund receivable $1,465. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Sales Tax Payable $507.