Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$340,771

Total expenses

$447,211

Contributions and grants received

$325,547

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$25,721

Investment income

$9

Other revenue

-$10,506

Total assets, end of year

$219,832

Total liabilities, end of year

$194,481

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$25,351

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$220,548

Management and general expenses

$98,326

Fundraising expenses

$128,337

Program service expenses (Part III)

$220,548

Program services were 49.3% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• TEENTIX PRESS CORPS: THE PRESS CORPS PROMOTES CRITICAL THINKING, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION LITERACY THROUGH ARTS CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM PRACTICE FOR TEENS. SINCE 2006, SOME OF THE CITY'S MOST TALENTED PROFESSIONAL ARTS CRITICS FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES, THE STRANGER, SEATTLE GLOBALIST AND MORE HAVE TAUGHT OVER 550 TEENS THROUGH WORKSHOPS AND INTENSIVES FOCUSED ON ARTS CRITICISM TRAINING, RESULTING IN OVER 450 REVIEWS OF ARTS AND CULTURE EVENTS THAT LIVE ON THE TEENTIX BLOG. IN 2015, WE PUT THE PRESS CORPS ON HIATUS AND WORKED WITH TASK FORCE OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE PROGRAM'S ONGOING CHALLENGES, INCLUDING LACK OF SIGNIFICANT RACIAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIVERSITY AMONGST PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND STAFFING CHALLENGES. THE PRESS CORPS RELAUNCHED IN SPRING OF 2018. OUR UPDATED PRESS CORPS IS DESIGNED TO INCLUDE RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE PRIORITIES AND HAS AN EXPLICIT GOAL OF DISRUPTING SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION WITHIN ARTS MEDIA THAT HAVE KEPT MARGINALIZED VOICES OUT OF ARTS JOURNALISM.

  Expenses $60,073 · Revenue $5,950

• TEENTIX PASS PROGRAM: ANY TEENAGER (13-19 YEARS OLD) CAN SIGN UP FOR A FREE TEENTIX PASS. THE PASS ENTITLES TEENS TO PURCHASE $5 DAY-OF-SHOW TICKETS AT ANY OF OUR 75 PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS IN SEATTLE (69) AND TACOMA (6). SINCE 2004, OVER 60,000 TEENS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE SIGNED UP FOR A TEENTIX PASS, PURCHASING MORE THAN 118,000 AFFORDABLE TICKETS TO ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY. ED VOICES OUT OF ARTS JOURNALISM.

  Expenses $73,603 · Revenue $19,771

• THE NEW GUARD: NEW GUARD MEMBERS PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN GUIDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEENTIX PROGRAMS AND EVENTS, IDENTIFYING ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES AND SERVING AS THE PRIMARY TEEN AMBASSADORS FOR TEENTIX. THEY PARTICIPATE IN HIGH-LEVEL DECISION-MAKING ALONGSIDE OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ADVISORY COUNCIL. THE NEW GUARD CONSISTS OF 34 TEENS REPRESENTING 24 SCHOOLS AND 22 ZIP CODES IN THE GREATER SEATTLE AREA. SINCE ITS LAUNCH THE NEW GUARD HAS NURTURED OVER 150 YOUNG LEADERS WHO HAVE GONE ON TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES AS ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS, ARTS ADMINISTRATORS, POLITICIANS, SCIENTISTS, LAWYERS, AND ENTREPRENEURS. THE NEW GUARD PARTNERS WITH THE COLORIZATION COLLECTIVE, A GROUP LED BY YOUNG PEOPLE (WHO ARE ALSO TEENTIX ALUMNI!), WHICH PROMOTES DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS, TO PRESENT A MENTORSHIP PROGRAM FOR TEEN ARTISTS OF COLOR. TEENS WORK WITH THEIR MENTORS AND A COHORT OF PEERS TO HONE THEIR CRAFT AND DEVELOP NEW WORK. THE NEW GUARD SUPPORTS THESE EFFORTS BY HOSTING AN ANNUAL EVENT TO SHOWCASE THEIR WORK AT THE END OF EACH YEAR.

  Expenses $35,799

• THE TEENTIX ARTS PODCAST (TAP) IS A GROUP OF TEENS WHO PRODUCE A MONTHLY PODCAST FOCUSED ON ARTS AND CULTURE. THE TAP PROGRAM OPERATES IN LINE WITH THE SCHOOL-YEAR SCHEDULE AND RUNS CONTINUOUSLY FROM SEPTEMBER-JUNE. TAP TEENS GET TO CHOOSE THE FOCUS FOR EACH EPISODE, AND WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GROUND ZERO RADIO TO PRODUCE A NEW EPISODE EACH MONTH - THEY ALSO GET PAID FOR THEIR WORK!THE MENTORSHIP FOR TEEN ARTISTS OF COLOR (M-TAC) IS HOSTED BY TEENTIX, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COLORIZATION COLLECTIVE (A TEEN-RUN ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS). THIS PROGRAM WILL SPECIFICALLY ALLOW TEEN ARTISTS OF COLOR TO HONE THEIR ARTWORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PROFESSIONAL MENTORS. THIS IS A GREAT WAY FOR TEENS TO BETTER THEIR CRAFT, BUILD CONNECTIONS IN THE ARTS COMMUNITY, AND PRESENT THEIR ART!

  Expenses $51,073

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

Listed in Part VII

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

2023

Filed

1 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

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