Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$599,817

Total expenses

$772,821

Contributions and grants received

$435,217

Grants paid

$16,750

Program service revenue

$164,575

Investment income

$25

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$514,939

Total liabilities, end of year

$326,646

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$188,293

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$656,310

Management and general expenses

$100,433

Fundraising expenses

$16,078

Program service expenses (Part III)

$656,310

Program services were 84.9% 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 · 2024

• Arts2Work: Arts2Work is a creative workforce initiative sponsored by The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, winner of the MIT SOLVE Prize for Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US. Arts2Work includes the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship program in Media Arts + Creative Technologies, including new career pipelines for Multimedia Producers, Digital Video Editors and Multimedia Graphic Designers. It provides new infrastructure, equity and economic sustainability for artists and creative workers, businesses, organizations, communities and institutions across the US. Arts2Work prioritizes equity and inclusion with special outreach to BIPOC, low-income workers, women, youth, veterans and disabled communities. (Continued on Schedule O)The ecosystem of Arts2Work includes a national network of Creative Studios and Training Centers, Pre-Apprenticeship programs that include paid learn-on-the-job experiences, Registered Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship Labs and an online Learning Hub with free tutorials, networking and access to mentorship for anyone seeking to build a career in media. The Alliance sponsors Arts2Work-affiliated programs in Baltimore, Albany, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Oakland, Colorado Springs, and Watts, with others on the way. We also provide an NEA-supported Arts2Work online Learning Hub, offering digital media and technology-focused tutorials, networking events and mentoring for all creative job-seekers to access training free-of-charge. https://arts2work.media/

  Expenses $524,419 · Revenue $153,938

• General Program and Conference: Under General Program services, we offer a Digital Resource Library, an online Screening Room, the Storytelling Matters Blog, a Job Board, a monthly E-Bulletin and an Arts2Work Newsletter. We also offer a limited Fiscal Sponsorship program for invited projects that align with the Alliance mission. We are currently the fiscal sponsors for a groundbreaking documentary film about slavery and reparations in America entitled Acts of Reparation, by award-winning filmmakers Macky Alston and Selina Davidson. We also use General Program for pilot programs that serve the media arts field that do not yet fall under existing program headings.

  Expenses $109,865 · Revenue $3,866

• Alliance Youth Media Network: The Alliance Youth Media Network programs convene, connect, nurture and sustain strategic development in the Youth Media field. We support innovative and emerging models of practice within the fields of youth media, creative youth development, and media literacy. We do this through the collaborative production of a youth media magazine, ongoing Collective Action work, hosting national Video Roundtables and a global Youth Media Summit, mentoring a cohort of Youth Media Fellows each year, and supporting the leaders of a national network of youth media organizations. All of the programs of our Youth Media Network use an intergenerational, co-creative approach as a means to demonstrate the possibilities and impact of a range of youth and elders working collaboratively and (Continued on Schedule O) inclusively, interrogating power and privilege across program areas, with the goal of providing new models and emerging practices for the field. We also offer the Unlocking Creativity Community of Practice, a regular gathering of local and national media organizations that work intentionally with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and justice-impacted youth. We convene monthly meetings for these organizations and offer opportunities for collaboration, funding, and exhibition throughout the year.

  Expenses $21,979 · Grants $16,750 · Revenue $6,771

• Innovation Studio: The Innovation Studio program supports the development of unique interactive digital media projects, platforms, tools and approaches to storytelling designed to foster strong, resilient creative communities. We think in systems, build replicable models, and take risks with new technology. Our teams are diverse, intergenerational and collaborative. Strategy, design, development, and prototyping in the Alliance Innovation Studio is customized uniquely for each project. We bring together a team of creative and tech experts based on the needs of the project; the central requirement for inclusion in the Innovation Studio is a commitment to sharing out the development process with the field and making the project available for replication in diverse communities and contexts. In every case, we will publish the code, share the data and provide templates or toolkits to enable meaningful and effective adoption. Projects developed in the Innovation Studio include the Open Archive Initiative, Alliance XR Gallery and Futures We Dream, a national creative collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.

  Expenses $47

As filed on the 2024 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

2024

Filed

12 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202533179349304778

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