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START SOCO

EIN 68-0468124 SANTA ROSA, CA

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Revenue 2025
$111,817
Expenses 2025
$99,443

Program services were 14.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
317 SUTTON PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

The mission of ArtStart is to inspire artistic creativity and illuminate the connections among people, ideas, and the environment, through engaging artists, children, families, and communities in quality arts education experiences.

  • Artstart provided aspiring young artists in Sonoma County the opportunity to create public art that is placed throughout our communities, while learning professional skills and building a portfolio. Professional artists guided young artists though the process of meeting with clients, designing and creating the project, and installing the work. This project was the Recology TRASH program.

    Expenses $5,409 · Grants $16,899

  • Artstart provided aspiring young artists in Sonoma County the opportunity to create public art that is placed throughout our communities, while learning professional skills and building a portfolio. Professional artists guided young artists though the process of meeting with clients, designing and creating the project, and installing the work. This project was a mural in Graton, CA called "Rails and Trails".

    Expenses $5,807 · Grants $14,000

  • Artstart provided aspiring young artists in Sonoma County the opportunity to create public art that is placed throughout our communities, while learning professional skills and building a portfolio. Professional artists guided young artists though the process of meeting with clients, designing and creating the project, and installing the work. This project was a mural for Oak Grove School in Graton, CA

    Expenses $2,791 · Grants $8,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Linda Ortiz

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Liz Uribe

    Board Co-President and Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jane Futrell

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Karen Norton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Kathy Comfort

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $111,817
    Expenses
    $99,443
    Contributions
    $45,274
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $109,421
    Expenses
    $155,344
    Contributions
    $53,379
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $110,368
    Expenses
    $119,442
    Contributions
    $51,726
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $239,670
    Expenses
    $255,224
    Contributions
    $239,670
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $192,641
    Expenses
    $174,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,804
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $158,068
    Expenses
    $138,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,588
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,516
    Expenses
    $144,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,924
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,263
    Expenses
    $124,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,100
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $161,737
    Expenses
    $87,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,983
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $29,262
    Expenses
    $31,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,273
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $46,540
    Expenses
    $89,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,150
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $26,251
    Expenses
    $33,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,617
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $73,041
    Expenses
    $39,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,012

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.