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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by RECESS ACTIVITIES.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,264,432
Total expenses
$1,824,203
Contributions and grants received
$4,227,558
Grants paid
$10,394
Program service revenue
$9,983
Investment income
$20,796
Other revenue
$6,095
Total assets, end of year
$5,816,736
Total liabilities, end of year
$686,707
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,130,029
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,425,769
Management and general expenses
$339,641
Fundraising expenses
$58,793
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,425,769

Program services were 78.2% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $220,287

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,007,271

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $2,100

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE INCOME

    total $9,983 · related or exempt $9,983

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $25,711 · excluded $25,711

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $3,283

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $3,283

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $3,283 · excluded $3,283

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $4,915

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$4,915

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$4,915 · excluded -$4,915

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $2,755

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $2,755 · related or exempt $2,755

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $57 · excluded $57

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $57

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $10,394 · program services $10,394

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $184,635 · program services $134,493 · management and general $18,754 · fundraising $31,388

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $649,493 · program services $590,060 · management and general $39,167 · fundraising $20,266

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $36,615 · program services $33,144 · management and general $3,471

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $82,316 · program services $69,498 · management and general $8,446 · fundraising $4,372

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $22,000 · management and general $22,000

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $7,908 · management and general $7,908

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $202,931 · program services $22,256 · management and general $180,675

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,496 · program services $20 · management and general $2,476

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $10,508 · program services $7,237 · management and general $2,865 · fundraising $406

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $137,059 · program services $134,625 · management and general $2,434

  • 17 · Travel

    total $17,643 · program services $13,977 · management and general $3,666

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $19,570 · management and general $19,570

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,430 · program services $4,971 · management and general $459

  • 24a · Other expenses: ARTIST STIPENDS AND MAT

    total $356,388 · program services $352,691 · management and general $3,697

  • 24b · Other expenses: UTILITIES AND MAINTAINE

    total $25,292 · program services $15,998 · management and general $9,113 · fundraising $181

  • 24c · Other expenses: OTHER EXPENSES

    total $20,221 · program services $18,668 · management and general $322 · fundraising $1,231

  • 24d · Other expenses: CATERING AND HOSPITALIT

    total $17,011 · program services $5,155 · management and general $11,583 · fundraising $273

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $16,293 · program services $12,582 · management and general $3,035 · fundraising $676

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $874,502 · end of year $945,340

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $445,741 · end of year $1,045,923

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $335,000 · end of year $2,040,025

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $16,379 · end of year $64,090

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $359

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $16,575 · end of year $10,925

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $184,161

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $91,458

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $67,222 · end of year $92,703

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $931,918 · end of year $1,055,574

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $690,413 · end of year $562,156

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $85,574 · end of year $103,333

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $713,684 · end of year $583,374

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $914,601 · end of year $2,110,029

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,664,250 · end of year $3,020,000

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

RECESS PARTNERS WITH ARTISTS TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE CREATIVE COMMUNITY. BY WELCOMING RADICAL THINKERS TO IMAGINE AND SHAPE NETWORKS OF RESILIENCE AND SAFETY, RECESS DEFINES AND ADVANCES THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART. OUR PROGRAMS OFFER SPACE AND RESOURCES TO GENERATE ART, IDEAS ANDACTIONS THAT CHALLENGE DOMINANT NARRATIVES AND ACTIVATE NEW FORMS.RECESS IS ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO SERVE AS A MEETING PLACE FOR MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE ACROSS A MULTIPLICITY OF COMMUNITIES.

  • RECESS PROGRAMS REIMAGINE TRADITIONAL STUDIO, EXHIBITION, AND CLASSROOM PLATFORMS, OFFERING ARTISTS, COMMUNITIES, AND PARTICIPANTS RESOURCES TO GENERATE NEW WORKS THAT PRESENT ALTERNATIVES TO DOMINANT AND OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS. OUR CORE PROGRAMS OPERATE WITHIN AN ECOSYSTEM WHEREIN EACH INITIATIVE SUPPORTS AND INFORMS THE OTHER.ASSEMBLY OFFERS SYSTEM-IMPACTED YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 18-26 AN INROAD TO ART AND CONNECTIONS TO WORKING ARTISTS, WHILE SERVING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INCARCERATION AND ITS INTERSECTING SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION. THE CURRICULUM EMPOWERS YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR OWN LIFE STORY AND ENVISION A FUTURE THROUGH ART.FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE AND NARRATIVE SHIFT. CRITICAL WRITING SUPPORTS A WRITER PRODUCING A NEW CRITICAL TEXT IN DIALOGUE WITH OUR ARTISTS' PROJECTS. PARTNERSHIPS TAKE OUR PROGRAMS OFFSITE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHARE OUR COMMITMENT TO ART AS IT INTERSECTS WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE. OUR MEETING PLACE IN CLINTON HILL WAS SELECTED BASED ON ITS CLOSE PROXIMITY TO DIVERSE COMMUNITIES, ARTISTS' STUDIOS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND NEARBY NYCHA HOUSING. WE ARE EMBEDDED IN A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOOD AND WORK LOCALLY TO DEVELOP DEEP AND MPACTFUL RELATIONSHIPS. RECESS SUPPORTS ARTISTS & COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY EXCLUDED IN THE CREATIVE FIELD. OUR EMPHASIS ON PROCESS AFFORDS ARTISTS AND PARTICIPANTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOCUS ON A PROJECT'S DEVELOPMENT RATHER THAN ITS RESOLUTION, ENABLING ARTISTS TO TAKE ON AMBITIOUS GOALS THAT EVOLVE IN DIALOGUE WITH THEIR CHOSEN PUBLIC. RECESS IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING DIVERSE AND UNDERREPRESENTED NARRATIVES, AND OFFERING CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES THAT NURTURE EMPATHY AND COLLECTIVE RE-ENVISIONING. THE ASSEMBLY CURRICULUM EMPOWERS YOUTH TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR OWN LIFESTORY AND ENVISION A FUTURE THROUGH ART AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION-DISMANTLING THE DOMINANT NARRATIVES OF THE "CRIMINAL". PARTICIPANTS CAN ELECT TO DEEPEN THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH RECESS AT VARIOUS STAGES OF THE PROGRAM, HONING BOTH HARD AND SOFT SKILLS WHILE BUILDING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS. OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY BEGINS BY PURSUING NEW MODELS INTERNALLY (STAFF, OPERATIONS, BOARD GOVERNANCE) AS WELL AS EXTERNALLY (PROGRAMS, FUNDRAISING, COMMUNICATIONS) IN ORDER TO IMAGINE AND REALIZE AN ETHOS OF CARE AND ACCOUNTABILITY THAT CONSTANTLY STRIVES TOWARD ABOLITION.IN 2020, GUIDED BY OUR CARE & ACCOUNTABILITY TOWARD ABOLITION FRAMEWORK, RECESS RESTRUCTURED ORGANIZATIONAL OPERATIONS AND BOARD GOVERNANCE, INTRODUCING CO-LEADERSHIP AT THE DIRECTOR AND CHAIR LEVELS, AND ADVANCING OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY BY RAISING OUR UNIVERSAL STAFF SALARY TO $80K FOR ALL FULL TIME STAFF AND $40K PRORATED RATE FOR PART-TIME STAFF.

    Expenses $1,425,769 · Grants $10,394 · Revenue $9,983

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Leslie Fritz

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Udemezue

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Hatch-Miller

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Kim

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Xaviera Simmons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Concepcion

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jan Postma

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • M Carmen Lane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelsey Hall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Hoover

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shaun Leonardo

    EX-OFFICIO / CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,476
    From this org
    $99,690
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,786
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lindsay C Harris

    EX-OFFICIO / CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $63,159
    From this org
    $58,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,467
    Hours/week
    40

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
26 July 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202432089349300013

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