Totals
- Total revenue
- $5,641,121
- Total expenses
- $3,658,780
- Contributions and grants received
- $5,018,470
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $492,838
- Investment income
- $70,048
- Other revenue
- $59,765
- Total assets, end of year
- $8,926,265
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,006,556
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $6,919,709
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,263,109
- Management and general expenses
- $345,950
- Fundraising expenses
- $1,049,721
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,263,109
Program services were 61.9% 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.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$103,641
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$858,270
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$4,056,559
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$59,765
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2a · Program service revenue: Creative Studios
total $451,495 · related or exempt $451,495 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Sales to Public
total $41,343 · related or exempt $41,343 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
3 · Investment income
total $70,048 · related or exempt $70,048 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$103,641
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue: In Kind Services
total $59,765 · related or exempt $59,765 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$59,765
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $174,956 · program services $174,956
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,761,497 · program services $1,150,217 · management and general $135,921 · fundraising $475,359
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $46,529 · program services $21,060 · management and general $12,942 · fundraising $12,527
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $69,680 · program services $36,002 · management and general $6,875 · fundraising $26,803
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $149,301 · program services $102,172 · management and general $10,718 · fundraising $36,411
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11g · Fees: other
total $288,665 · program services $115,357 · management and general $84,710 · fundraising $88,598
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14 · Information technology
total $55,253 · program services $30,832 · management and general $9,975 · fundraising $14,446
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16 · Occupancy
total $107,700 · program services $82,222 · management and general $7,307 · fundraising $18,171
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17 · Travel
total $51,600 · program services $18,585 · management and general $23,738 · fundraising $9,277
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20 · Interest
total $79,844 · program services $60,956 · management and general $5,417 · fundraising $13,471
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $22,166 · program services $14,852 · management and general $1,773 · fundraising $5,541
-
23 · Insurance
total $60,142 · program services $39,604 · management and general $12,780 · fundraising $7,758
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24e · All other expenses
total $791,447 · program services $416,294 · management and general $33,794 · fundraising $341,359
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $1,625,555 · end of year $816,582
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $553,066 · end of year $839,491
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $1,298,959 · end of year $1,136,876
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $51,503 · end of year $199,759
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
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
beginning of year $3,598 · end of year $3,598
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$1,536,902
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$79,216
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $381,315 · end of year $1,457,686
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $754,568 · end of year $1,276,165
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $2,569,929 · end of year $2,569,929
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $42,975 · end of year $626,179
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $29,960 · end of year $80,013
-
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $2,120,520 · end of year $1,295,764
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $193,620 · end of year $630,779
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,299,632 · end of year $5,392,698
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,637,736 · end of year $1,527,011
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
Activities or mission (Part I)
ArtWorks is an award-winning Greater Cincinnati nonprofit that creates community-based public art providing career opportunities for artists of all ages. The organization collaborates with community organizations and residents, businesses, governments, foundations, and nonprofits to build creative works of art that bolster the region's global reputation as an arts destination. ArtWorks has employed and trained over 3,500 professional artists and 4,000 youth, ages 14 - 24. We invest in our creative economy by creating jobs that support local talent, pairing professional artists to inspire and mentor diverse teams of youth, and helping them build 21st-century career-readiness skills. Over the past 29 years, this collaborative approach has created a citywide gallery with more than 14,000 public and private art projects, including more than 300 permanent outdoor murals.
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Apprenticeship Program: ArtWorks Apprentices are teen and young adult seasonal employees, who work side-by-side and learn from professional Artists and peers while creating public art and community impact projects. This program is for artists ages 14 - 21. Public Art Services & Community Engagement: ArtWorks facilitates public art commissions, calls-to-artists, and more, to create high quality art outcomes that the community can benefit from for decades. ArtWorks often invests in centering the vision of residents and neighborhood leaders. Community engagement comes in many forms, from attending Community Council meetings, getting design input from residents, activating public spaces with art-making activities, and more, always with the goal of creating artworks that are responsive to community histories and current needs. 386 employed professional, teen and young adult artists and arts administrators, and contracted creatives 203 teen and young adult participants (Apprentices, Studio Artists, Gallery Fellows) 47,502 hours of artistic mentorship 8,302 hours of professional development/career training 54 community partnerships 281 works of art created in communities and in the V2 gallery 38 large-scale murals and public art projects 11 neighborhoods directly invested in through public art 316 residents and visitors to the region who attended ArtWorks mural tours 24M residents and visitors who had the chance to experience ArtWorks murals
Expenses $1,702,391 · Revenue $1,504,311
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Gallery Fellowship Program: The Gallery Fellowship Program is a transformative, free educational experience for aspiring young artists to learn methods for making, showing, and selling their artwork from Artists-in-Residence. Participants display their work in public exhibitions, with 90% of sales going directly to the artists themselves. This program is for artists ages 16 - 24.
Expenses $57,458 · Revenue $49,718
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Creative Services Studio Program: The Creative Services Studio Program provides teen and young adults with consistent employment for an entire year. ArtWorks Studio programs offer an unmatched experience for emerging artists to gain a unique skill set in artistic production, administration, and project management related to the studio concentration. This program is for artists ages 18 - 24.
Expenses $503,260 · Revenue $504,748
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Colleen Houston
CE0 & Artistic Director
- Total calculated
- $174,957
- From this org
- $174,957
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 45
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $142,140
- Bonus
- $21,321
- Other
- $4,672
- Deferred
- $6,823
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $174,956
-
Kathryn Gardette
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ron Bates
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Ric Booth
Board Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Rocco D'Ascenzo
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Agnes Godwin-Hall
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Mike Hoeting
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gee Horton
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Barbara Hauser
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Pam Kravetz
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael DiMaggio
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rahiel Michael
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mark Randy Smith
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paula Boggs Muething
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kelly Brandstetter Tracy
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joe Muraca
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Lisa Saia
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Mark Mallory
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lauren Hannan-Shafer
Former Board President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Laura Humphrey
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Ron Nebel Houck
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jens Rosenkrantz Jr
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Emily Palmer Wolff
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tyra Patterson
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Connie Ross
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Related partnerships
Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.
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RLLA LLC
Related · Development Projects · OH · 99.99% owned
Directly controlled by Art Opportunities
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 4 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202503189349315940
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