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Nonprofit · EIN 82-1112244

COLLOQATE DESIGN

Tax-exempt · NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119

Financials

$1.1M$1.6M2023$655K$1.3M2024$1.2M$1.5M2025
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of COLLOQATE DESIGN by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
January 31, 2026990$1,185,445$1,504,389-$318,944$306,359$123,194$183,165
January 31, 2025990$654,588$1,305,642-$651,054$497,570$54,645$442,925
January 31, 2024990$1,054,252$1,622,534-$568,282$1,295,614$236,036$1,059,578
Financial details: 990 for the year ended January 31, 2026

Revenue

Contributions, gifts and grants
$48,409
Program service revenue
$1,137,019
Investment income
$17
Other revenue
$0

Expenses

Grants and similar amounts paid
$0
Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$92,700
Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
$905,952
Professional fundraising fees
$0
Accounting fees
$26,200
Occupancy
$18,325
Travel
$14,696
Depreciation
$29,997
Program services (functional)
$1,058,491
Management and general (functional)
$409,660

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$497,570
Total assets, end of year
$306,359
Total liabilities, end of year
$123,194
Net assets, end of year
$183,165
Land, buildings and equipment
$18,281
Net assets without donor restrictions
-$122,641
Net assets with donor restrictions
$305,806
Gross receipts
$1,185,445
Employees
12
Volunteers
0
Year formed
2017
State of legal domicile
LA

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 January 31, 2026, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Bryan C Lee JrPresident
Officer, Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$102,874
Jose AlverezTrustee
Officer
0$0
Paul HarangTrustee
Officer
0$0
Steven LewisTrustee
Officer
0$0
Casius PealerTrustee
Officer
0$0
Rosa ShengTrustee
Officer
0$0
Jess ZimbabweTrustee
Officer
0$0
990 for the year ended January 31, 2025: 7 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Bryan C Lee JrPresident
Officer, Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$103,105
Jose AlverezTrustee
Officer
0$0
Paul HarangTrustee
Officer
0$0
Steven LewisTrustee
Officer
0$0
Casius PealerTrustee
Officer
0$0
Rosa ShengTrustee
Officer
0$0
Jess ZimbabweTrustee
Officer
0$0
990 for the year ended January 31, 2024: 7 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Bryan C Lee JrPresident
Key employee
40$86,947
Jose AlverezTrustee
Officer
0$0
Paul HarangTrustee
Officer
0$0
Steven LewisTrustee
Officer
0$0
Casius PealerTrustee
Officer
0$0
Rosa ShengTrustee
Officer
0$0
Jess ZimbabweTrustee
Officer
0$0

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
4025 ULLOA ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119-6833
In care of
% BRYAN C LEE JR
Principal officer (990 for 2025)
Bryan C Lee Jr, 4025 Ulloa Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
Signed the 990
Bryan Lee Sr, PResident
Phone
(609) 284-2230

Mission

A justice practice focused on expanding community access to and building power through design of social and cultural spaces.

990 for the year ended January 31, 2026

Program accomplishments

  • Storia: Cultural Futures - Mellon CID - Colloqate will work to design and construction cost to execute the Claiborne Innovation District Project that was started back in 2017. The remainder of the funds will be used for capacity building and organizational support for cultural institutions on the ground in New Orleans and potentially Portland.
    Expenses $272,998 · revenue $275,000
  • Meyer Memorial Trust funds Colloqates environmental justice work - Colloqate Design assisting with build power with frontline communities goal. Separately Meyer is providing generous support for Colloqates CDA O Community Design Advocates & Organizers Training Program curriculum with a paid program launch planned for 2026.
    Expenses $227,448 · revenue $227,706
  • Colloqate is working with the City of Olympia to complete ground level landscaping create a festival street along with library activation spaces and create connections to a building site. These efforts include Building relationships and networks within the community and offer assistance into other growth opportunities.
    Expenses $143,631 · revenue $165,255
  • Jane Place HQ - A 5,000 sf new build for the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability initiative. 3 units of affordable housing Jane Place Headquarters and community space.
    Expenses $66,948 · revenue $88,387
  • Freedom To Grow is designed as a transformative justice center that supports the reintegration of returning citizens. It focuses on empowerment through education vocational training and community engagement.
    Expenses $1,660
  • PCC Opportunity Center - The Portland Community College PCC Opportunity Center is a workforce training center in Portland OR that will be an anchor for the community in Northeast Portlands racially diverse Cully neighborhood. Bora Architecture & Interiors Lead Architect AB Cultural Drivers Community Engagement Partner Amara Perez Community Engagement Partner PLACE Studio Landscape Architecture
    Expenses $112,279 · revenue $124,094
  • Nature In Neighbors collaborating with Colloqate Design on community engagement and participatory design projects most notably the Nature in Neighborhoods Community Choice Grants a participatory budgeting pilot with Metro regional government that resulted in 14 park and nature restoration projects across 6 districts being approved for funding.
    Expenses $77,501 · revenue $86,315
  • MLK Library - The renovated MLK Library is a rehabilitation of the historic Mies Van De Rohe building in the heart of downtown. The library will center the collective legacy of Dr. King Marion Barry and the array of individuals that ensured the success of the civil rights movement and lead the way for present-day activists and organizers.
    Expenses $29,644 · revenue $39,876
  • Remaking the campus: PSU selects Walker Macy to advance its Place Matters initiative The design team proposes a new welcome center colorful paint jobs bold signage and justice- oriented collaboration to transform the university campus and help revitalize downtown.
    Expenses $14,642 · revenue $21,499
  • Various Speaking Engagements
    revenue $1,970
  • CBSE - The CENTER FOR BLACK STUDENT EXCELLENCE is a community-initiated effort to consider a Place an Approach and a Redesign of the Portland Public School System to address the problem of decades of underinvestment systemic racism lack of coordinated systems of support and discriminatory practices have resulted in an enduring opportunity and achievement gap for Black students in Portland.
    Expenses $100
  • Jefferson High School Cultural Placemaking - facilitates a Design Justice-based community engagement process supporting a BIPOC-led team alongside LEVER Architecture and Bora with the project honoring Jeffersons history as an anchor in the Black community in North Portland intertwining race culture nature and the built environment fitting the cultural placemaking framing. Modernization aims to honor Jeffersons history as an anchor in the black community.
    Expenses $1,888 · revenue $2,817
  • De Rose Community Bridge - To assist with culturally specific and culturally responsive nonprofit serving immigrants refugees and houseless individuals in Portland and Beaverton Oregon.
    Expenses $50,297 · revenue $43,374
  • Lone Fir - Block 14 at Lone Fir Cemetery was historically a Chinese American burial ground holding nearly 3,000 ancestors until Multnomah County cleared it in the 1950s for a parking lot and maintenance building desecrating graves and severing the communitys connection to a sacred site central to ancestor-honoring traditions. Early community engagement surfaced personal everyday practices of honoring ancestors food fragrance photographs which are informing the projects approach to repair and reconnection.
    Expenses $12,493 · revenue $14,263
  • The York Urban Village project is a Colloqate collaboration with the York Collective envisioning housing health cultural and green spaces for Portlands Black community. It was presented as part of Our Rooted Futures, which unveiled the York Urban Village Exhibit and Guilds Lake Diorama featuring renderings dioramas and archival materials exploring themes of placemaking legacy co-optation and solidarity grounding the work in historical truths while imagining liberated futures. Its tied to the broader York Collective initiative named for York the enslaved member of the Lewis and Clark expedition with related educational and cultural programming in Portland.
    Expenses $28,852 · revenue $25,264
  • The 1803 Fund is a Portland Oregon organization founded in 2023 seeking to redevelop historically Black areas
    Expenses $18,110 · revenue $21,200

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 January, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025January 31, 2026June 15, 2026990 on file
2024January 31, 2025June 16, 2025990 on file
2023January 31, 2024June 17, 2024990 on file

IRS record

EIN
82-1112244
Tax-exempt status
501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
Foundation status
Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
Donations deductible (Pub 78)
Public charity, 50% deduction limit
Exempt since
2018
Accounting year ends
January
Files
Form 990 or 990-EZ
Assets (IRS master file)
$306,359
Income (IRS master file)
$1,185,445

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990January 2026$1,185,445$1,504,389$306,359XML
990January 2025$654,588$1,305,642$497,570XML
990January 2024$1,054,252$1,622,534$1,295,614XML
990January 2023$1,197,060$935,928$1,755,813IRS
990January 2022–––IRS
990January 2021–––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 82-1112244).

Questions about COLLOQATE DESIGN

What is the EIN of COLLOQATE DESIGN?
The employer identification number (EIN) of COLLOQATE DESIGN is 82-1112244.
Is COLLOQATE DESIGN tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2018.
Are donations to COLLOQATE DESIGN tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does COLLOQATE DESIGN 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 COLLOQATE DESIGN due?
The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending January 31, 2027) is due June 15, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did COLLOQATE DESIGN last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended January 2026.
Who is the principal officer of COLLOQATE DESIGN?
The 990 for the year ended January 31, 2026 names Bryan C Lee Jr.
Who are the officers and directors of COLLOQATE DESIGN?
The 990 for the year ended January 31, 2026 lists 7 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $102,874 (Bryan C Lee Jr, President).
How much revenue does COLLOQATE DESIGN have?
On its 990 for the year ended January 31, 2026 it reported revenue of $1,185,445, expenses of $1,504,389 and total assets of $306,359 at year end.

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