Nonprofit · EIN 13-3638436
CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC
Also known as CREATIVE ART WORKS
Tax-exempt · NEW YORK, NY 10001
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 31, 2025 | 990 | $2,080,784 | $2,005,461 | $75,323 | $1,654,227 | $156,572 | $1,497,655 |
| August 31, 2024 | 990 | $1,935,890 | $1,724,711 | $211,179 | $1,535,331 | $122,725 | $1,412,606 |
| August 31, 2023 | 990 (amended) | $1,683,885 | $1,643,685 | $40,200 | $1,291,687 | $90,260 | $1,201,427 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $1,862,271
- of which government grants
- $255,783
- Program service revenue
- $195,447
- Investment income
- $32,792
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$9,726
- Other revenue
- -$9,726
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $245,193
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,113,668
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $1,598,031
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $9,575
- Occupancy
- $27,753
- Travel
- $7,051
- Depreciation
- $51,306
- Program services (functional)
- $1,437,599
- Management and general (functional)
- $172,312
- Fundraising (functional)
- $395,550
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,535,331
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,654,227
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $156,572
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,497,655
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $185,724
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,497,655
- Gross receipts
- $2,167,211
- Employees
- 48
- Volunteers
- 73
- Year formed
- 1991
- State of legal domicile
- NY
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Jolicoeur | Executive Director Officer, Highest-paid employee | 40 | $147,115 | $2,614 |
| Brian Ricklin | President Trustee or director, Officer | 30 | $98,077 | $15,162 |
| Steven Soutendijk | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| John Maher | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Gabe Marans | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Stern | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Rosenberg | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Tiffany Theriault | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Cary Levy | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Cascio | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Corneby | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mosely Chaszar | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Julian DAmbrosi | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Osman Berke Kababulut | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Levin | Chairman of the Board Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
2 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Sanabria | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Gail Holcomb | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2024: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Jolicoeur | Executive Director Officer, Highest-paid employee | 40 | $145,605 | $2,614 |
| Brian Ricklin | Board President Trustee or director, Officer | 30 | $95,216 | $15,162 |
| Cary Levy | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Tiffany Theriault | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Gail Holcomb | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Cascio | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mosely Chaszar | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Charmaine Davis-Murray | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Scott Corneby | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Gabe Marans | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| John Maher | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Carol Rosenberg | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Stern | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Levin | Chairman of the Board Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Soutendijk | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 | $0 |
| Julia Sanabria | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2023: 14 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Jolicoeur | Executive Director Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $141,150 | $3,124 |
| Brian Ricklin | President Trustee or director, Officer, Highest-paid employee | 33 | $118,170 | $15,076 |
| Janet Woods | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Stern | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Gail Holcomb | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Cary Levy | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Tiffany Theriault | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Neil Goldmacher | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Mosely Chaszar | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Angela Pennyfeather | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Evans | Board Member Trustee or director | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew Levin | Chairman of the Board Trustee or director, Officer | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Steven Soutendijk | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 0 | $0 | $0 |
| Julia Sanabria | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 0 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 100 W 33RD ST STE 1026, NEW YORK, NY 10001-2986
- In care of
- % KAREN JOLICOEUR
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Karen Jolicoeur, 100 West 33rd Street STE 1026, New York, NY 10001
- Signed the 990
- KAREN JOLICOEUR, Executive Director
- Phone
- (646) 424-0392
- Website
- www.creativeartworks.org
- Return prepared by
- Padilla and Company LLP
Mission
CAWs mission is to improve the lives of New York City youth through the visual and multimedia arts. CAW serves thousands of young people each year through in-school and out-of-school-time classes, community art-making events, and public art youth employment programs.
Program accomplishments
- PUBLIC ART YOUTH EMPLOYMENT: In FY25, Creative Art Works offered 367 internships and apprenticeships through 18 Public Art Youth Employment programs. Under the guidance of CAW teaching artists and program management, Youth Apprentices developed creative skills, employment skills, and life skills, such as leadership, teamwork, and the power of taking initiative and responsibility through the creation of large-scale public art or multimedia projects in collaboration with local businesses, organizations, and public spaces. In the summer of 2025 alone, CAW served a record high of 135 Youth Apprentices (YAs) at worksites. Projects included four murals, a multimedia oral history short film, and a multimedia guidebook to the New York Family Court System. During the 2024-2025 academic year, CAW provided an additional 213 paid Character Design digital artmaking internships at four Career and Technical Education public high schools. (continued in schedule O)Expenses $594,718 · revenue $418,224
- OUT-OF-SCHOOL-TIME ARTS EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT: In the 2024-2025 academic year, 212 students participated in 7 Out-of-School-Time programs with 6 partners. Students learned artmaking techniques including watercolor, crayon, and oil pastel painting; cut-paper flower techniques; textured stamp making; Sumi ink illustrations; paper and kinetic sculpture making; leaf stamps; accordion bookmaking; paper-folding techniques; and clay pottery and sculpture. Literacy-based programs aligned artmaking with English language arts modules, encouraging younger learners to engage more deeply with the books they read in school. High school students at Hudson High School for Learning Technologies worked together to choose a theme, brainstorm representative symbols, colors, and words, and develop concept art for a mural to be installed within the school. (continued in schedule O)Expenses $327,639 · revenue $131,881
- IN-SCHOOL ARTS EDUCATION AND ARTS INTEGRATION: In the 2024-2025 academic year, CAWs In-School programs reached 873 NYC public school students in 9 semester-long or year-long programs, offered with 6 school partners. Students in our In-School programs explored subjects like activism in art, surrealism, and even reinterpreting medieval illustration through a modern lens. Projects included collage-making, watercolors, decalcomania, cubist self portraits, digital collage and pop art, pottery, sculpture, bookmaking, contour drawing, board game making, paper cutting and folding, map making, oil painting, and more. In each case, CAWs professional teaching artists and program management staff collaborated with school teaching staff and administrators to align lesson plans with the core curriculum, showing demonstrable impacts on academic behaviors and performance. (continued in schedule O)Expenses $314,591 · revenue $136,565
- OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: Other program services include CAWs fourth core program, Community Artmaking, which engage youth with their families as part of larger public events with community partners. More than 600 NYC youth and their families participated in eight Community Artmaking events in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Other program services included the development of new program initiatives and our Teaching Artist Assistant-in-Training program, through which six Teaching Artist Assistants-in-Training were provided with mentorship and skills development support and served as assistant to more seasoned Teaching Artists in classrooms and at mural sites.Expenses $200,651 · revenue $16,192
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in August, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | August 31, 2026 | January 15, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | August 31, 2025 | January 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | August 31, 2024 | January 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 13-3638436
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1992
- Accounting year ends
- August
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A65Z)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,654,227
- Income (IRS master file)
- $2,167,211
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | August 2025 | $2,080,784 | $2,005,461 | $1,654,227 | XML |
| 990 | August 2024 | $1,935,890 | $1,724,711 | $1,535,331 | XML |
| 990 | August 2023 | $1,757,906 | $1,717,706 | $1,291,687 | XML |
| 990 | August 2022 | $1,737,768 | $1,595,263 | $1,328,636 | IRS |
| 990 | August 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 13-3638436).
Questions about CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC
- What is the EIN of CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC is 13-3638436.
- Is CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1992.
- Are donations to CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending August 31, 2026) is due January 15, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended August 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 names Karen Jolicoeur.
- Who are the officers and directors of CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 lists 17 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $147,115 (Karen Jolicoeur, Executive Director).
- How much revenue does CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $2,080,784, expenses of $2,005,461 and total assets of $1,654,227 at year end.
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