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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE BEAUTIFUL PROJECT INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$395,843
Total expenses
$514,805
Contributions and grants received
$395,843
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$0
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$0
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$253,029
Management and general expenses
$261,776
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$253,029

Program services were 49.2% 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

    $1,700

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $394,143

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

    $1,700

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $342,916 · program services $87,063 · management and general $255,853 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $30,480 · program services $30,480 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $5,422 · program services $5,422 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $97,507 · program services $97,507 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $51 · program services $51 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,987 · program services $0 · management and general $2,987 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,508 · program services $3,508 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $608 · program services $0 · management and general $608 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $4,619 · program services $4,619 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,591 · program services $1,591 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank Charges

    total $2,154 · program services $0 · management and general $2,154 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues and Subscriptions

    total $7,688 · program services $7,688 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Printing and Publication

    total $1,669 · program services $1,669 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: Rent or Lease

    total $13,431 · program services $13,431 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $174 · program services $0 · management and general $174 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $310,074

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $3,533

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $405,873

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year -$99,332

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Beautiful Project is a community-based arts organization in Durham North Carolina that uses storytelling and visual arts to advance the healing and representational justice of Black girls, gender-expansive youth, and women.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Beautiful Project is a collective of image makers that use photograpy, writing, and care to create spaces for Black women and girls to confromt the mass misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and misuse of their likeness in the media and in the world at large. Through tools of cultural activism, TBP collectively build and utilize voice and power to advance the wellness and representational justice of Black women and girls.

  • Arts & Activism Youth Apprenticeship. The Arts and Activism Youth Apprenticeship is focused on exploring cultural activism. This includes exploring Black feminist movements, reading, watching, and discussing Black Feminist text and art, visiting TBP's most recent exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and other experiments and activities. The apprentices learn to use words and images as tools for understanding and confronting injuries related to gender, race, and identity in their community

    Expenses $76,076

  • Artist in Residence. The TBP Teaching Artise Residency is a 6-9 month artist-in-residence fellowship that provides an opportunity for Black women and non binary practicing artist to work on a specific project in partnership with TBP Selected artist may work in photography, file, poetry, writing, or other visual art media. In addition to teaching young artist in TBP's youth program pipeline, visiting artist in TBP's youth program pipeline, visiting artist are required to lead their own special project that engages the organziation' mission of advancing the representational and healing justice of Black girls, gender-expansive youth, and women.

    Expenses $59,478

  • Ekphrais in Black (EIB). EIB is a hybrid artform plus polictial education incubator designed to develop and deepen attendees' poetry, photography skills, and political consciousness.

    Expenses $63,769

  • Grantmakers for Girls of Color and Encounter the Arts Community Programs.

    Expenses $53,706

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Alexandria Zagbayou

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Dosali Reed-Bandeli

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Marcus Littles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0

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
2 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202411359349309201

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