HEARD

Financials

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-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

418 PITT MEWS, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314-2511

In care of

% JANE HESS COLLINS

Mailing address (990-N for 2025)

418 Pitt Mews, Alexandria VA 22314

Principal officer (990-N for 2025)

Michael E Collins, 418 Pitt Mews, Alexandria VA 22314

Signed the 990-EZ

Michael Collins, Secretary/ Trasurer

Phone

(703) 330-1117

Website

www.heardnova.org

Mission

Heard's mission is to foster creativity, confidence, self-worth, and life skills to adults, families, and youth in need who are marginalized, underserved, unknown, and unheard by offering them artistic expression through experiential instruction and participation. We serve those in need. We serve our program partners. We serve artists.

Program accomplishments

• Heard hires local artists to teach creativity and life skills through art to adults, families, and youth who may be in recovery, survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, LGBTQA, older adults, immigrant, incarcerated, or transitioning from incarceration or homelessness, through its partnerships with Alexandria and other Northern Virginia area nonprofit and government organizations. We offer acting, creative writing (journaling, memoir writing, and more), dance, etiquette, improvisation, poetry, public speaking, singing, spoken word, and visual art. In 2024 our artists conducted over 250 classes for our program partners serving approximately 2500 people in need. We work with people in need exclusively, and they benefit in powerful and life-changing ways. Heard brings the arts to those who are physically unable to access other art programs offered to the public. The incarcerated cannot leave their facilities for any reason, including to attend or participate in arts events. Program partners and their respective missions include: Alexandria Adult Detention Center, Arlington County Detention Center, Carpenter's Shelter (housing the homeless), Casa Chirilagua (low-income, immigrant Latino youth), City of Alexandria Department of Health and Community Services LGBTQA Task Force, Opioid Treatment Program, and Sexual Assault Survivor Group, Community Lodgings (transitional housing, housing, and youth education for low-income, primarily Latino youth), Doorways (assault survivors), Friends of Guest House (women re-entering the community after incarceration), Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center, Senior Services of Alexandria (older adults), Space of Her Own (mentoring for BiPOC 12-year-old girls), and Together We Bake (women needing a second chance).
  Expenses $31,745
• Our contracted Executive Director (ED) coordinates all day-to-day operations of Heard to deliver program services, including relationship building, programming, training, ongoing support of program partners and artists, outreach, and budgeting. The ED also facilitates corporate, board, artist, and stakeholder communications as well as fundraises and writes grants. The ED is the nucleus of Heard and the nonprofit would cease to deliver services in the absence of the ED. More specifically, the ED accomplished the following- Program partner support: In 2024 the ED budgeted and delivered over 20 classes per month among our program partners, and developed or maintained a program partner agreement with each. The program partner agreement assigns responsibilities and commitments. The agreement includes desired outcomes for clients, artists, and program partners, and emphasizes that our mission is to foster creativity, not therapy. The agreement also includes statements regarding hold harmless agreements, media releases, access to staff members during programs, evaluations, and professional expectations. It is vital to our mutual success that both artist and client have a positive experience. We structure our classes based on our partners' requests and offer them as often as they ask. We work twice a week with one partner, and once annually with others. Classes are held onsite or virtually, depending on the program partner and the assigned artist's needs. In addition to our programming, Heard offers other support to our program partners and also partners with other metro Washington arts organizations. The winning works from our annual writing contests have been shared with and performed at local poetry and art venues. Each program partner is asked to evaluate Heard's partnership with them annually based on established outcomes. Artist support: the executive director is responsible for selecting, training, facilitating, scheduling, and compensating the nearly 20 members of our art team, and collecting and analyzing evaluations from program partners about the Heard artist and art program following the completion of a class or series of classes. Artists are selected for the Heard team based on their professional art training, teaching experience, compassion/empathy, and their ability to maintain healthy boundaries with clients. Artists complete an orientation with the ED, any training required by a program partner, and lesson plans prior to each class. Each artist is asked to evaluate the Heard/executive director management of them annually, based on established outcomes.
  Expenses $30,833
• In an effort to better serve our clients, our program partners, and our art team, Heard undertook a strategic planning effort to thoroughly evaluate and improve our processes and procedures, and plan for future expansion. A key result of this effort was to establish standardized outcomes for our clients, our partners, and our organization, allowing us to define success and the tools to quantifiably measure it. The desired outcomes and associated response statements for clients, program partners, and artists were developed in 2022 and are still being used with positive results. We re-evaluated this process in 2024 under the direction of our new ED. We also expanded our outreach to other communities and worked with communities in other localities to use the Heard model and methods to solve their local needs using local artists. This initiative, known as KickstART, was successfully implemented in two rural Ohio communities. One community created a community-driven public art event that was the foundation for a far-reaching arts initiative that has received national recognition. The second program, focused on offering arts to students with mental health challenges, received full funding from the local United Way and has also been very successful. This program service accomplichment also includes maintaining our website where client writing, poetry, visual arts, and performances are displayed, allowing our clients to feel more heard; supplies for conducting classes; and small cash prizes for the winners of the writing contests we sponsor in local detention centers.
  Expenses $10,339

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

32-0592893

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

2019

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990-N (e-Postcard)

Category (NTEE)

Education (B60)

Filing history

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 32-0592893).

Questions about HEARD

What is the EIN of HEARD?

The employer identification number (EIN) of HEARD is 32-0592893.

Is HEARD tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2019.

Are donations to HEARD tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does HEARD file?

Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less.

When is the next return of HEARD due?

The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did HEARD last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-N for 2025 for the year ended December 31, 2025.

Who is the principal officer of HEARD?

The 990-N for 2025 names Michael E Collins.

Who are the officers and directors of HEARD?

The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 9 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $30,833 (Kelly Carnes, Executive Director).

How much revenue does HEARD have?

On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $69,803, expenses of $77,218 and total assets of $29,192 at year end.

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