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ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC

EIN 75-1158515 FORT WORTH, TX

Revenue 2024
$1,974,889
Expenses 2024
$2,251,649

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A01
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 470121

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 · 2024

Mission

To create an environment that promotes, nurtures, and supports the arts in our community.

  • LEADERSHIP, ADVOCACY, AND OUTREACH:PROVIDED LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY TO THE ARTS IN FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY: FUNDED LOCAL ART ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH A COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM AND COMPREHENSIVE ARTS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUALS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. SUPPORTED 42 ARTS ORGANIZATIONS THAT REACHED 1,058,090 INDIVIDUALS WITH IN-PERSON EVENTS, 11,630 WITH ONLINE PRESENTATIONS. AN AVERAGE OF 55% OF PROGRAMING WAS FREE TO PARTICIPANTS.

    Expenses $1,031,075 · Grants $983,422 · Revenue $8,075

  • PUBLIC ART PROGRAM: MANAGED THE CITY OF FORT WORTH PUBLIC ART PROGRAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENHANCING THE VISUAL ENVIRONMENT OF OUR CITY. SCOPE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT INCLUDED 39 PUBLIC ART PROJECTS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF COMPLETION; CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE OF MORE THAN 185 COMPLETED ARTWORKS IN THE COLLECTION; CONDUCTED 23 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS, AND 370 PROJECT-SPECIFIC CORE TEAM/COMMUNITY MEETINGS.

    Expenses $505,295 · Revenue $183,645

  • EDUCATING ON ARTS AND ADVOCACY: HOSTED PUBLIC EVENTS SUCH AS WORKSHOPS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND NETWORKING TO EDUCATE AND COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL ARTS PROFESSIONALS AND ARTS ADVOCATES.

    Expenses $197,600

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • WESLEY GENTLE

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $118,706
    From this org
    $118,706
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

  • TANISIA CASTILLO-QUEPPET

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ESTRUS TUCKER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MEGAN HENDERSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • STEVE GORDON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • KATHERINE SMITH

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • DENNIS CHIESSA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WHITNEY MCLEAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • STEVE MONTGOMERY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LAUREN EAST

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BLAKE MOORMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WESLEY KIRK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LISA POWERS MILLER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ROBERT L JAMESON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DUSTY LEWIS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JESSICA SANGSVANG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GLENDA THOMPSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GRANT SUMMERS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • DAWN TAFT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHANNA SALDANA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LAUREN SABA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,974,889
    Expenses
    $2,251,649
    Contributions
    $1,774,047
    Grants paid
    $983,422
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,917,084
    Expenses
    $2,149,983
    Contributions
    $1,851,476
    Grants paid
    $950,842
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,923,982
    Expenses
    $2,127,212
    Contributions
    $1,913,169
    Grants paid
    $956,616

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

    Revenue
    $2,120,732
    Expenses
    $2,307,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,548,812

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,299,736
    Expenses
    $2,225,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,811,616

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,121,480
    Expenses
    $2,044,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,731,618

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,251,841
    Expenses
    $1,952,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,621,995

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,865,790
    Expenses
    $1,911,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,426,140

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,995,651
    Expenses
    $1,856,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,308,346

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,038,810
    Expenses
    $1,722,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,216,644

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,000,517
    Expenses
    $1,689,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $820,607

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,296,302
    Expenses
    $2,024,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $567,780

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,916,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,080,736

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.