Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by ARTISTIC DREAMS INTERNATIONAL.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $197,385
- Total expenses
- $199,721
- Contributions and grants received
- $165,385
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $32,000
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $26,625
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,293
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $24,332
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $136,115
Program services were 68.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
To nurture K-12 youth to become creative world citizens who can transform their lives and the communities they live in through the arts.
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During the year Artistic Dreams provided over 232 free workshops serving more than 300 students in New York City and completed three community murals in Harlem. Artistic Dreams carries out its mission through three main program services that integrate creativity education and community engagement. 1. Art and Mindfulness: This program offers in-school and after-school workshops that combine visual arts with mindfulness practices helping students build focus self-expression and emotional well-being through creative exercises. 2. Art and World Cultures: Through hands-on art projects inspired by global artistic traditions students explore cultural diversity art history and storytelling while developing respect and curiosity for the world around them. 3. Art and Civic Engagement: This program leads large-scale mural projects that reflect community identity and shared values. A professional teaching artist guides students in the foundations of muralism while they discuss and design the murals theme. The mural is completed by students and school community members and is unveiled through a special event. Together these programs empower young people to express themselves gain emotional well-being connect with others and make a positive impact through art. Programs happened in collaboration with seven schools four youth-serving partners and local community centers.
Expenses $136,115 · Grants $114,814
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Lillian Alonzo Marin
Executive Director Founder Trustee
- Total calculated
- $77,000
- Compensation
- $77,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Raymond Happy
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Stephanie Meade
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tobias Crabtree
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ricardo Araiza
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.1
- Source object
- 202503189349201110
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