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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,080,784
Total expenses
$2,005,461
Contributions and grants received
$1,862,271
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$195,447
Investment income
$32,792
Other revenue
-$9,726
Total assets, end of year
$1,654,227
Total liabilities, end of year
$156,572
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,497,655
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,437,599
Management and general expenses
$172,312
Fundraising expenses
$395,550
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,437,599

Program services were 71.7% 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

    $1,297,811

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $255,783

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $308,677

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $36,456

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Service Revenue

    total $195,447 · related or exempt $195,447

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $32,792 · related or exempt $32,792

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $76,701

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

    $1,297,811

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $86,427

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$9,726 · excluded -$9,726

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $245,193 · program services $173,742 · management and general $20,527 · fundraising $50,924

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,113,668 · program services $871,644 · management and general $100,527 · fundraising $141,497

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $141,238 · program services $97,899 · management and general $9,513 · fundraising $33,826

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $97,932 · program services $76,887 · management and general $7,425 · fundraising $13,620

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $9,575 · program services $6,210 · management and general $1,655 · fundraising $1,710

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $42,922 · program services $23,387 · management and general $2,759 · fundraising $16,776

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $15,293 · program services $7,868 · management and general $468 · fundraising $6,957

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $53,548 · program services $44,685 · management and general $1,135 · fundraising $7,728

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $52,540 · program services $32,188 · management and general $5,140 · fundraising $15,212

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $27,753 · program services $20,048 · management and general $7,705

  • 17 · Travel

    total $7,051 · program services $4,525 · management and general $452 · fundraising $2,074

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $51,306 · program services $40,578 · fundraising $10,728

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $35,165 · program services $22,142 · management and general $9,333 · fundraising $3,690

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food and beverages

    total $87,371 · program services $13,069 · management and general $3,728 · fundraising $70,574

  • 24b · Other expenses: Bank credit card & inv fees

    total $17,561 · management and general $1,121 · fundraising $16,440

  • 24c · Other expenses: Facility and equipment

    total $2,928 · program services $2,291 · management and general $195 · fundraising $442

  • 24d · Other expenses: Gifts and gratuities

    total $2,741 · program services $120 · management and general $25 · fundraising $2,596

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,676 · program services $316 · management and general $604 · fundraising $756

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $364,223 · end of year $279,389

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $540,300 · end of year $463,470

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $126,890 · end of year $101,073

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $10,913 · end of year $45,462

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $10,820 · end of year $5,881

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

    $408,197

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

    $222,473

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $184,694 · end of year $185,724

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $203,826 · end of year $500,413

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $93,665 · end of year $72,815

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $30,731 · end of year $58,393

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $24,840

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $91,994 · end of year $73,339

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,409,511 · end of year $1,497,655

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,095

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CAWs mission is to improve the lives of New York City youth through the visual and multimedia arts. CAW serves thousands of young people each year through in-school and out-of-school-time classes, community art-making events, and public art youth employment programs.

  • PUBLIC ART YOUTH EMPLOYMENT: In FY25, Creative Art Works offered 367 internships and apprenticeships through 18 Public Art Youth Employment programs. Under the guidance of CAW teaching artists and program management, Youth Apprentices developed creative skills, employment skills, and life skills, such as leadership, teamwork, and the power of taking initiative and responsibility through the creation of large-scale public art or multimedia projects in collaboration with local businesses, organizations, and public spaces. In the summer of 2025 alone, CAW served a record high of 135 Youth Apprentices (YAs) at worksites. Projects included four murals, a multimedia oral history short film, and a multimedia guidebook to the New York Family Court System. During the 2024-2025 academic year, CAW provided an additional 213 paid Character Design digital artmaking internships at four Career and Technical Education public high schools. (continued in schedule O)

    Expenses $594,718 · Revenue $418,224

  • OUT-OF-SCHOOL-TIME ARTS EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT: In the 2024-2025 academic year, 212 students participated in 7 Out-of-School-Time programs with 6 partners. Students learned artmaking techniques including watercolor, crayon, and oil pastel painting; cut-paper flower techniques; textured stamp making; Sumi ink illustrations; paper and kinetic sculpture making; leaf stamps; accordion bookmaking; paper-folding techniques; and clay pottery and sculpture. Literacy-based programs aligned artmaking with English language arts modules, encouraging younger learners to engage more deeply with the books they read in school. High school students at Hudson High School for Learning Technologies worked together to choose a theme, brainstorm representative symbols, colors, and words, and develop concept art for a mural to be installed within the school. (continued in schedule O)

    Expenses $327,639 · Revenue $131,881

  • IN-SCHOOL ARTS EDUCATION AND ARTS INTEGRATION: In the 2024-2025 academic year, CAWs In-School programs reached 873 NYC public school students in 9 semester-long or year-long programs, offered with 6 school partners. Students in our In-School programs explored subjects like activism in art, surrealism, and even reinterpreting medieval illustration through a modern lens. Projects included collage-making, watercolors, decalcomania, cubist self portraits, digital collage and pop art, pottery, sculpture, bookmaking, contour drawing, board game making, paper cutting and folding, map making, oil painting, and more. In each case, CAWs professional teaching artists and program management staff collaborated with school teaching staff and administrators to align lesson plans with the core curriculum, showing demonstrable impacts on academic behaviors and performance. (continued in schedule O)

    Expenses $314,591 · Revenue $136,565

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: Other program services include CAWs fourth core program, Community Artmaking, which engage youth with their families as part of larger public events with community partners. More than 600 NYC youth and their families participated in eight Community Artmaking events in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Other program services included the development of new program initiatives and our Teaching Artist Assistant-in-Training program, through which six Teaching Artist Assistants-in-Training were provided with mentorship and skills development support and served as assistant to more seasoned Teaching Artists in classrooms and at mural sites.

    Expenses $200,651 · Revenue $16,192

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Karen Jolicoeur

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $149,729
    From this org
    $147,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,614
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brian Ricklin

    President

    Total calculated
    $113,239
    From this org
    $98,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,162
    Hours/week
    30

  • Steven Soutendijk

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Maher

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gabe Marans

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Stern

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Rosenberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tiffany Theriault

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cary Levy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Cascio

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Corneby

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mosely Chaszar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julian DAmbrosi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Osman Berke Kababulut

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Levin

    Chairman of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julia Sanabria

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gail Holcomb

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 January 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202610219349301326

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