Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,217,053
- Total expenses
- $1,155,552
- Contributions and grants received
- $243,330
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $973,723
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $180,352
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $180,352
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $995,016
- Management and general expenses
- $81,642
- Fundraising expenses
- $78,894
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $995,016
Program services were 86.1% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$243,330
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2a · Program service revenue: other income
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2b · Program service revenue: other program income
total $195,518 · related or exempt $195,518
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2c · Program service revenue: rich oak presents tickets
total $4,731 · related or exempt $4,731
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2d · Program service revenue: sparc income
total $773,474 · related or exempt $773,474
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $146,798 · program services $36,700 · management and general $51,379 · fundraising $58,719
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $13,663 · program services $12,980 · management and general $410 · fundraising $273
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $5,092 · program services $4,837 · management and general $153 · fundraising $102
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $16,619 · program services $15,788 · management and general $499 · fundraising $332
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $2,197 · program services $2,087 · management and general $66 · fundraising $44
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $6,532 · program services $6,205 · management and general $196 · fundraising $131
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13 · Office expenses
total $5,976 · program services $5,677 · management and general $179 · fundraising $120
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $1,227 · program services $1,166 · management and general $37 · fundraising $24
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $7,171 · program services $6,812 · management and general $215 · fundraising $144
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24a · Other expenses: Contractors
total $915,250 · program services $869,488 · management and general $27,457 · fundraising $18,305
-
24b · Other expenses: Job Supplies
total $32,523 · program services $30,897 · management and general $976 · fundraising $650
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24c · Other expenses: bank & finance chgs
total $1,383 · program services $1,314 · management and general $41 · fundraising $28
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24d · Other expenses: QB payment fees
total $658 · program services $625 · management and general $20 · fundraising $13
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24e · All other expenses
total $463 · program services $440 · management and general $14 · fundraising $9
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $101,972 · end of year $142,338
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $30,412 · end of year $38,014
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $27,133
-
31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $105,251 · end of year $180,352
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Bay area creative supports positive change through creative and expressive arts that uphold cultures, provide therapeutic benefits, and to enhance communication skills primarily in underrepresented communities. We are driven by our resolute mission to actively disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, champion marginalized cultures, and carve out a sanctuary for unbridled self-expression.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Bay area creative provides opportunities for creative expression and development of communication skills through work in spoken word programs with predominantly families of color in underserved neighborhoods in the san Francisco bay area of California.
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Bay area creatives journey from July 1 2024 to June 30, 2025 was a beacon of artistic growth and community enrichment through our main program SPARC. SPARC provided over 6,883 students across 130 sites the opportunity for growth through creative and artistic expression. This is both through SPARC workshops and community events held in schools throughout the bay area. 56% of those served through SPARC programming come from low income homes. 43% are English language learners with 79% identifying as BIPOC, LatinC or AAPI students. This program delivered more than 4,251 hours of workshops provided by 41 working artist to 5 bay area counties.
Expenses $885,565 · Revenue $968,992
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Rich Oak became a program of bay area creative this year and continued to produce the Berkeley slam, the longest running poetry slam on the west coast. Rich oak brings together local known and new poets (including poets in the sparc program) with well-known poets from around the world for a weekly slam in the bay area. Audience and performers form a diverse reflection of the bay area community including bipoc, aapi, Latinx, lgbtq+, and all other types of identifying performers to a single stage. Serving an audience of combined total of more than 2,790 people in 78 shows between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. 55 featured performers headlined and over 378 poets and artists performed at rich oak events.
Expenses $79,601 · Revenue $4,731
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Revisions is the bay area creatives therapeutic arts program that works with organizations and providers to create lasting difference in participants lives through creative therapy such as writing and empathy education. Working with organizations such as the social changers bac provided 115 participants access to therapeutic arts in 95 workshops focused on accessing trauma and healing in creative methods such as writing.
Expenses $29,850
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Patrick Ohslund
Deputy Director
- Total calculated
- $74,544
- From this org
- $74,544
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Michael Taylor
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $72,254
- From this org
- $72,254
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Katherine Whitcraft
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Gloria Tse
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Mandy Bynum
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Marcus Scott
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kiely Corti
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jamie Kennedy
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kamikazi Taylor
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kelly Mendez Diamond
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jason Bayani
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Seana Condit-Gordon
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- 28 January 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202600289349301610
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