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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WE ARE THE CULTURE CREATORS NONPROFIT.

Totals

Total revenue
$396,365
Total expenses
$377,865
Contributions and grants received
$21,225
Grants paid
$43,580
Program service revenue
$375,140
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$18,820
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$18,820
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$350,400
Management and general expenses
$12,691
Fundraising expenses
$14,774
Program service expenses (Part III)
not reported

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $21,225

  • 2a · Program service revenue: LEWIS PRIZE

    total $320,000 · related or exempt $320,000

  • 2b · Program service revenue: EVENTS

    total $55,140 · related or exempt $55,140

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $21,225

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $43,580 · program services $43,580

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $93,542 · program services $93,542

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $60,000 · program services $40,000 · management and general $10,000 · fundraising $10,000

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,137 · fundraising $1,137

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $3,435 · management and general $408 · fundraising $3,027

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,915 · program services $4,915

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $25,000 · program services $25,000

  • 17 · Travel

    total $10,610 · program services $8,000 · management and general $2,000 · fundraising $610

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $283 · management and general $283

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,209 · program services $1,209

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

    total $134,154 · program services $134,154

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $648 · end of year $18,820

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $320,320

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $63,803

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $63,803

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $63,803

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $384,451

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $320 · end of year $18,820

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

To provide high quality arts/entrepreneurship education for young men of color in the city of Detroit; with an emphasis on: professional development, strategic goal setting, aesthetics, and artistic integrity. All held in a space that reflects them and their culture.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide high quality arts/entrepreneurship education for young men of color in the city of Detroit All held in a space that reflects them and their culture built on integrity & love.

  • We officially opened a new media center February 2023 led by one of our youth members Xavier Cuevas. This center will house a computer lab, small editing setup for video, sound lab and meeting space for young adults across Detroit. The main key to this new space will be the infinity wall we will be building. Currently the media house is in the final process of build out and we anticipate it to be complete by the end of 2024.

  • Youth Organizing Stipend We hired 2 youth at, $17,500 stipends each year. The youth organizers within our program organize and maintain our projects. These youth organizers are youth themselves between 18-24 which allows them to have direct influence on our projects.

  • Berlin International Music Exchange Program BETROIT We have commited to a 3 year International Music Exchange Program with the Nonprofit Gang Ways in Berlin, Germany {they work with hundreds at risk youth of color in Germany} which consists of a 10 youth artist exchange and music collaboration. This was our 3rd international exchange program within We Are Culture Creators. We had 3 Major Cultural Event Programs for the year of 2023 which we used 4k dedicated to curation. The 3 cultural events are Bloom on the Block a juneteenth Celebration, Cinco De Mayo and our Day of the Dead Gala Fundraising event.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Elizabeth Stone

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Reyes

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses

Answered no

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
  • 9 · Followed the rebuttable-presumption procedure

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 June 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202411679349300406

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