Nonprofit · EIN 94-3246554
ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS
Tax-exempt · OAKLAND, CA 94611
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $177,106 | $166,245 | $10,861 | $1,897,671 | $257 | $1,897,414 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $167,807 | $95,269 | $72,538 | $1,799,886 | $300 | $1,799,586 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $71,173
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $100,649
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $64,436
- Net income from fundraising events
- $5,284
- Other revenue
- $5,284
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $65,000
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $59,078
- Other salaries and wages
- $12,282
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $78,172
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $6,300
- Accounting fees
- $5,053
- Program services (functional)
- $92,360
- Management and general (functional)
- $48,278
- Fundraising (functional)
- $25,607
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,799,886
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,897,671
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $257
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,897,414
- Publicly traded securities
- $1,731,351
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $142,648
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $1,754,766
- Gross receipts
- $400,684
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 16
- Year formed
- 1996
- State of legal domicile
- CA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTAVIA BERRY | Executive Dir. Officer | 25 | $32,011 |
| DIANE DUNWOODIE | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| BEN STOLUROW | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| NIKI SHAH HEINRICH | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| ANDREA COEN | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| CHRIS SCRIVANI | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| LAURAN WEINMANN | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| ANGELA HUGHES | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| SOCHI ODIDIKA | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| MARIA LAWS | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| MAYRA MORALES RIOS | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| JOY CHESBROUGH | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| RYAN HERZOG | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTAVIA BERRY | Executive Dir. Officer | 25 | $5,000 |
| DIANE DUNWOODIE | CO-PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| JEFF HALL | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| NIKI SHAH HEINRICH | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DEBORAH WIENER | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JIM POTTER | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| CHRISTINE SCRIVANI | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| LAURAN WEINMANN | CO-PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| JODY TALKINGTON | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| ANGELA HUGHES | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| SOCHI ODIDIKA | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| MARIA LAWS | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| MAYRA MORALES RIOS | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JOY CHESBROUGH | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| RYAN HERZOG | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 3871 PIEDMONT AVE 11, OAKLAND, CA 94611-5378
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- BEN STOLUROW, 3871 PIEDMONT AVE 11, OAKLAND, CA 94611
- Signed the 990
- DIANE DUNWOODIE, Treasurer
- Phone
- (510) 488-3036
- Return prepared by
- Perotti & Carrade CPAs
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 94-3246554 or by the name ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
TO ADVANCE ARTS JUSTICE BY ENSURING THAT ALL STUDENTS IN UNDER-RESOURCED OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECEIVE A COMPREHENSIVE ARTS EDUCATION IN ORDER TO IMPROVE LEARNING AND PROMOTE ACHIEVEMENT.
Program accomplishments
- TO ADVANCE ARTS JUSTICE BY ENSURING THAT ALL STUDENTS IN UNDER-RESOURCED OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECEIVE A COMPREHENSIVE ARTS EDUCATION IN ORDER TO IMPROVE LEARNING AND PROMOTE ACHIEVEMENT.ARTogetherARTogethers After-school Music Program provides newcomer refugee and immigrant students at Oakland International High School with collaborative weekly music classes, creating gathering spaces for students to learn and explore different musical styles and traditions together.BoomShake MusicDuring the 2024-5 school year, BoomShake Music will offer full-year weekly street drumming workshops to every 2nd and 5th grade student at Manzanita SEED Elementary School. Guided by teaching artists Sarah Norr and Mira Manickam-Shirley, students will learn drum technique, ensemble playing, movement, composition and improvisation, and the creation of songs and chants. Students will perform both at school events and at Oakland-based community gatherings and social justice actions.Cantare con VivoCantares Nova Youth Choir unites 6-12 grade students from disparate Oakland neighborhoods for 36 weeks of weekly rehearsals and small-group vocal coaching; monthly leadership workshops and clinics with working musicians; and annual choir festivals, college tours, and community performances with Cantares elementary and adult choirs. Nova makes it possible for every Oakland 6-12th grader to have tuition-free, uninterrupted access to bi-weekly choral music education throughout their middle and high school years, a critical time for developing a positive self-identity and a lifelong love for the arts.The CrucibleThe Crucible's Creative Economy Pathways Program (CEPP) introduces high school students attending OUSD schools (this funding will support our work at Rudsdale High School) to The Crucibles variety of industrial art practices as well opportunities to turn the skills learned into tangible products that can then be used as items that can be sold at a number of vending opportunities they are invited to participate in.Harmony Project OaklandHarmony Project Oakland (started in 2020) is a free, intensive, multi-year program offering instrumental classes, performances, and musical mentoring. We harness the transformative power of music to embolden students to realize their full potential and empower them to greet challenges in their lives, both musical and otherwise. Through social-emotional and musical instruction, practice time, and peer mentoring, students actively participate in the program for a minimum of 4 hours per week.Living JazzThe Living Jazz Childrens Project is a free, in-school performing arts residency designed for pre-kindergarten through 2nd graders in the Oakland Unified School Districts Title 1 schools and expanded in 2022 to West Contra Costa School District and middle school students. Debuted in 2005, the jazz-rooted arts education program teaches music fundamentals, ensemble singing, rhythm, percussion and dance, utilizing art as a tool for social change and cultural empowerment. The year-long curriculum focuses on choral music through a social justice lens, on rhythm and polyrhythms from the African Diaspora within the context of cultural awareness, and on dance as a form of cultural history, self-expression and storytelling.Prescott Circus TheaterPrescott Circus Theatre (PCT) will continue of The Esperanza Circus and Theater Arts Residency at Esperanza Elementary School for the 2024-2025 school year. The residency will provide weekly circus and theater arts instruction for 130 students across seven classrooms: all fourth and fifth grade general ed students and all K-5 special day class students with moderate / moderate-severe disabilities. In partnership with classroom teachers, PCT teaching artist, Cesar Amaruc, will facilitate and support students technical and creative learning in circus and theater arts while promoting skills that support school and life success.ThingamajigsThingamajigs is a genre-crossing arts organization that promotes music and other art forms created with made and found materials or alternate tuning systems. Our mission is to develop and nurture the exploration of alternate materials and methods of creating sound and promote collaborative efforts between artists and local communities. We often serve students classified as at-risk from socioeconomically disadvantaged families who may not have the experience to have a creative outlet.The Youth ARTS CompanyThe Youth ARTS (Addressing Real Traumas and Solutions) Company is a trauma informed, healing-centered community based art program that emboldens teenage student artists to use writing and spoken-word as a catalyst for trauma-healing, youth advocacy and narrative change. Through their poetry & spoken word, students enhance wellness in their own lives and the community at large by producing their own Community Based Arts production using Youth Participatory Action Research methods.Todays Future SoundFuture Sounds is a year-long program offering Therapeutic Beat Making workshops open to all 300 10th-12th grade students at Rudsdale Continuation High school. We request $5,000 from the Landis Foundation in order to extend workshops funded by the school through the whole school year.Youth BeatYouth Beat will provide high-quality, year-long, (120+ hours total) after-school film and animation classes to 90 Oakland high school students during the 2024-2025 school year and summer 2024 (100 hours). At least 80 of these students will attend AOK qualifying high schools. Students will come mostly from the low-income East Oakland neighborhoods along International Blvd. They will learn from accomplished media professionals and 1) develop technical skill, 2) build creative muscle, 3) develop a sense of competence and self-worth, 4) become part of a supportive creative community, and 5) build teamwork, leadership, project management, and critical thinking skills.Z Space StudioWord for Word Youth Arts will conduct its 10th annual in-depth public school residency for two classes of 6th grade ELA students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in Oakland. Our 10-week residency will focus on the multi-award winning young adult novel, THE ONLY ROAD, the story of Guatemalan cousins on a perilous journey, risking everything for safety. Five professional actors will kick off the residency by performing the first chapter of the book in the signature Word for Word style, then our team of two Word for Word teaching artists and a muralist will visit students twice/thrice a week for 10 weeks (23 one-hour visits per classroom) to lead them in devising scripts, staging and rehearsing chapters, and creating mural backdrops inspired by the novel, culminating in a public performance in the schools auditorium for family, classmates, staff, and the wider community.Expenses $92,360
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
- 94-3246554
- 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
- 1996
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A12)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,897,671
- Income (IRS master file)
- $400,684
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | $177,106 | $166,245 | $1,897,671 | XML |
| 990 | June 2024 | $167,807 | $95,269 | $1,799,886 | XML |
| 990 | June 2023 | $132,646 | $152,809 | $1,585,574 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | 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 94-3246554).
Questions about ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS
- What is the EIN of ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS is 94-3246554.
- Is ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1996.
- Are donations to ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS 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 ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS 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 ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS 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 ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names BEN STOLUROW.
- Who are the officers and directors of ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 13 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $32,011 (ARTAVIA BERRY, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $177,106, expenses of $166,245 and total assets of $1,897,671 at year end.
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