2026-02-11T12:46:48-07:00 2024-06-30 990 2023-07-01 852645291 PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC PUBL 2153411272 185 Hart Street Brooklyn NY 11206 Donna Still Treasurer 2153411270 2025-12-09 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X India Still 1201 Woodlyne Blvd Linwood NJ 08221 62154 0 X www.publicassistants.org X 2020 NY Public Assistants (PA) is a community design lab, and media production studio working to counter systemic inequity and neglect with solutions guided by creativity and collaborative, community based artmaking. PA works to create and support an ecosystem of Black and POC LGBTQi+ artists from New York City and social practice art forms that strengthen disenfranchised communities and reconsider traditional systems and practices of art and art making 7 0 0 8 0 0 136155 16082 68460 46072 0 0 14691 0 219306 62154 6574 0 0 0 19712 37512 0 0 0 100901 81602 127187 119114 92119 -56960 125559 81074 4053 18289 121506 62785 Public Assistants (PA) is a community design lab, and media production studio working to counter systemic inequity and neglect with solutions guided by creativity and collaborative, community based artmaking. PA works to create and support an ecosystem of Black and POC LGBTQi+ artists from New York City and social practice art forms that strengthen disenfranchised communities and reconsider traditional systems and practices of art and art making 0 0 15100 10000 -5100 Mural Program- Each year, PA takes on a selected number of community-based mural projects. This past year PA achieved 2 murals, one for a collaboration project with MOMA via artist DonChristian Jones assisted by artist Victor Saint Hilaire and 50 students. and another in Queensbridge Park, Bronx with the artist Victor Saint-Hilaire supervising 16 student participants. This project is earned income and planning and partial funding began in the later part of the last fiscal year 40899 40899 0 Artist Support - The Divine Fellowship, made possible with the support of Ford Foundation supports eight selected QTBIPOC artists working through social impact projects each year, through stipends, a residency program upstate, retreats, and access to the tools and resources of our shop. Beyond this fellowship, PA supported over ten other artists across their respective creative and community based projects. This funding is spread over two fiscal years. funding was received in the prior year and posted as receivables for this fiscal year. 14722 35800 Collaborative community based art installation with MOMA, 0 0 0 Public Assistants provided printing, publishing, and production services for QTBIPOC artists working at the intersections of community storytelling, cultural memory, and social imagination. The program offered access to fabrication tools, mentorship, and collaborative studio space to support the creation and distribution of new artistic works. These services expanded equitable access to cultural production and advanced the organization's mission to serve as a hub for community-rooted artistic practice. 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Schedule D, Part IV, Line 2b An individual collaborating artist received a small grant, did not have 501-C3 status and could only receive it as a pass through with another 501 C3 organization. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Upon founding of PA, Board Members were established to setup 501-c3 expeditiously as donations were coming in fairly quickly. The Board President and Treasurer who both have the related experience are related to the founder. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b Formalization of committees did not take place. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9 Donna Still 403 West School House Lane, Philadelphia PA 19144 India Still 1201 Woodlyne Blvd. Linwood NJ 08821 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The 990 is sent to the Founder and Board President Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 There is only one paid employee who has worked the organization mostly on a volunteer basis. A small grant came in budgeted for a (much smaller) than industry average part time based salary and approved by 3 members of the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 It is posted on Public Assistants website Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Fees paid to artist/contractors mural work, repair & maintenance administrative support. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 reallocated to retained earnings to correct small loan balance. The organization has very limited funding and limited staff. Much work is done on a volunteer basis as is the bookkeeping and accounting and this volunteer suffered much personal loss causing the delay and in her ability to remain consistent.