Nonprofit · EIN 22-2754566
AS 220
Tax-exempt · PROVIDENCE, RI 02903
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $2,531,181 | $3,332,093 | -$800,912 | $13,765,393 | $3,850,560 | $9,914,833 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $2,639,758 | $3,593,089 | -$953,331 | $14,476,562 | $3,760,817 | $10,715,745 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $796,386
- of which government grants
- $125,697
- Program service revenue
- $1,734,795
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $154,761
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,030,578
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $1,460,279
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $7,325
- Occupancy
- $245,870
- Travel
- $7,422
- Depreciation
- $258,635
- Program services (functional)
- $2,563,046
- Management and general (functional)
- $642,395
- Fundraising (functional)
- $126,652
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $14,476,562
- Total assets, end of year
- $13,765,393
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $3,850,560
- Net assets, end of year
- $9,914,833
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $3,441,873
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $9,881,388
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $33,445
- Gross unrelated business income
- $243,780
- Gross receipts
- $2,531,181
- Employees
- 81
- Volunteers
- 70
- Year formed
- 1986
- State of legal domicile
- RI
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 June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Newmann | Co-Executive Director Officer | 40 | $64,647 | $25,275 |
| Shauna Duffy | Co-Executive Director Officer | 40 | $65,393 | $16,309 |
| Janella Watson | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Aarin Clemons | Vice Chair till Jan 25 Trustee or director, Officer | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Dupuis | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Faria | Vice Chair as of Jan 25 Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Savannah DaCruz | Director till Sept 24 Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Lizzie Araujo | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Caroline Mailloux | Director till Sept 24 Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Cagen Luse | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Ashley Paniagua | Director till Sept 24 Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Joshua Wynn | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Hamlin | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Vatic Astahili Tayari Kuumba | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Reuben Tillman III | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
1 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Waters | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 14 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Newmann | Co-Executive Director Officer | 40 | $65,967 | $23,853 |
| Shauna Duffy | Co-Executive Director Officer | 40 | $69,425 | $15,075 |
| Janella Watson | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Aarin Clemons | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Dupuis | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Faria | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Savannah DaCruz | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Lizzie Araujo | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Caroline Mailloux | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Felicia Megginson | Director till 12-23 Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Ashley Paniagua | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Joshua Wynn | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Hamlin | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Vatic Astahili Tayari Kuumba | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 95 MATHEWSON ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02903-1848
- In care of
- % SHAUNA DUFFY
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Shauna Duffy, 95 MATHEWSON ST, 204, PROVIDENCE, RI 029031848
- Signed the 990
- Shauna Duffy, Co-Executive Director
- Phone
- (401) 831-9327
Mission
We the people of Rhode Island associate ourselves for the purpose of providing a local forum and home for the arts through the maintenance of residential and work studios galleries performance and educational spaces. Exhibitions and performances in the forum will be unjuried uncensored and open to the general public. Our facilities and services are made available to all artists who need a place to exhibit perform or create their original artwork especially those who cannot obtain space to exhibit or perform from traditional sources because of financial or other limitations. AS220 envisions a just world where all people can realize their full creative potential.
Program accomplishments
- AS220 YOUTH works with young people aged 14-21 through 5 crews: fashion media arts music dance and visuals. AS220 Youth formally partners with several downtown high schools that otherwise do not have arts programming as well as the Rhode Island Training School the states juvenile detention center where we have been working for nearly 30 years. This exposure to the arts taps into often-overlooked creative potential offering a powerful learning experience for young people. In FY2025 AS220 Youth ran 144 ongoing classes and served 347 young people including 94 Youth apprentices. AS220 Youth also premiered a full studio show again: FUTUREWORLDS 9 in May 2025.Expenses $837,031 · revenue $691,593
- LIVE ARTS & GALLERIES: We provide an unjuried uncensored all ages forum for the arts; every artist residing in Rhode Island has the opportunity to exhibit or perform their original work in our venues. AS220 presents an extraordinary range of activities and our unjuried and uncensored booking policy ensures that a limitless variety appears on our stages and on our walls. Live Arts venues include the Main Stage the Black Box and Psychic Readings and these venues host live music theater dance performance art poetry slams film screenings late night programming fashion shows workshops festivals and more. In fiscal year 2025 Live Arts presented over 400 performances events and workshops with over 4,200 artists and public attendance of over 19,000. The AS220 Galleries include the Main Gallery the Project Space the Reading Room the Resident Gallery and the Aborn Gallery and feature visual artists working in various mediums on a monthly rotating schedule. In fiscal year 2025 the galleries curated exhibitions featuring 95 visual artists including 37 first-time exhibitors with attendance of over 5,100. In the Aborn Gallery we also continued to intentionally curate timely exhibitions. This model is now being used to support artists and curators who otherwise would not have an opportunity to show work with a focus on projects that: engage with critical social issues relevant to and urgent in our community; present projects that bring new voices to the gallery and AS220 community; uplift artists at critical junctions in their career; and might be outside the traditional parameters of a gallery exhibition and or push against boundaries of the mainstream.Expenses $573,765 · revenue $290,503
- LIVE WORK: AS220 owns and manages three mixed-use buildings in downtown Providence Rhode Island totaling approximately 100,000 sq. ft. We offer affordable housing and studio space for over 60 artists on the upper floors of each of our three downtown buildings including 47 live work studios and several work-only studios. Each of our buildings includes a mix of affordable residences artist studios and public AS220 programming. We also provide offices space for 4 other non-profit organizations and have 6 commercial tenants all of which are local one-of-a-kind businesses. Permanent affordable artist housing has been key to transforming downtown providence into a vibrant place to live and work over the past 30 years. Our tenants are a core foundation of the AS220 community and have access to AS220 resources. They also help support the community through volunteer work.Expenses $412,242 · revenue $120,755
- AS220 COMMUNITY STUDIOS and AS220 DANCE are AS220s formal adult education programs. Community Studios is a cross-disciplinary arts education space and community studio comprising a Media Arts Lab Fabrication Lab and Woodshop Printshop Visuals & Fashion Studio and Community Darkroom. In addition to providing members access to professional tools and equipment for artistic production Community Studios has offered educational workshops from beginner to advanced levels since 2011. By providing affordable access to studio space tools of the trade and varied training opportunities Community Studios has fostered a dynamic environment for learning and making as well as small business development and production. In FY2025 219 regular members participated at Community Studios and 1,220 students attended 95 workshops and events. AS220 Dance hosts weekly classes in many dance and movement forms as well as rehearsal space for dancers. In FY2025 16 regular dance instructors held 520 class sessions for 2,489 students.Expenses $197,374 · revenue $80,675
- OTHER PROGRAMS: Other programs includes organization-wide programming such as AS220s participation in the Citys PVD Fest as well as supporting and incubating small and fledgling arts groups and other aligned startup organizations as they grow into their own nonprofits through fiscal and administrative support. In FY2025 it also included the second year of our Creative Leadership Fellows project. The 16 Fellows 11 of whom completed the program were supported by programs across AS220 in a yearlong program through which they learned about event curation being a teaching artist arts nonprofit management civic engagement and creative leadership.Expenses $542,634 · revenue $307,489
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 June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 22-2754566
- 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
- 1988
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A600)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $13,765,393
- Income (IRS master file)
- $2,531,181
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $2,090,397 | $3,101,274 | $15,158,776 | IRS |
| 990-T | December 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2022 | $2,442,996 | $2,472,638 | $17,745,095 | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS publishes only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years appear here as 990.tax collects the monthly files. 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.
Questions about AS 220
- What is the EIN of AS 220?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of AS 220 is 22-2754566.
- Is AS 220 tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1988.
- Are donations to AS 220 tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does AS 220 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 AS 220 due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did AS 220 last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended June 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of AS 220?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names Shauna Duffy.
- Who are the officers and directors of AS 220?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 16 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $64,647 (Ashley Newmann, Co-Executive Director).
- How much revenue does AS 220 have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $2,531,181, expenses of $3,332,093 and total assets of $13,765,393 at year end.
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