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BI-OKOTO DRUM & DANCE THEATRE

EIN 31-1440549 CINCINNATI, OH

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Revenue 2024
$357,115
Expenses 2024
$354,622

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A230
Classification
1000
Street
5601 MONTGOMERY RD

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

Bi-Okoto envisions a world where individuals families and communities take pride in their cultural heritage while appreciating the cultural expression of others. Our mission is to preserve and share the heritage of Africa by using traditional arts as an educational tool to promote cultural awareness in communities globally.

Activities or mission (Part I)

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  • Virtual hands-on experience and training in dance drumming music art food and language. Lecture demonstrations time sampler for preschool and homeschool students. These programs are interactive interdisciplinary and based on statewide national humanities standards that engage students in utilizing their creative thinking skills fostering awareness of cultural differences and similarities and building self-esteem. With over 250 performances annually Bi-Okoto reaches over 9,800 children and adults during the 2024 school year

    Expenses $177,311 · Grants $61,277 · Revenue $32,602

  • Classes and Summer Camp - Year long classes and workshops are offered to students ages 5 to adult in African dance drumming Afro-Caribbean dance capoeira African cooking and philosophy and African languages. The Summer Camp introduces children to African culture through music dance field trips languages handmade crafts character-building exercises and activities. The camp concludes with a performance and art exhibition by the students for their parents and the community.

    Expenses $106,387 · Grants $52,523 · Revenue $23,412

  • Customized workshops are provided for schools and colleges spanning a minimum of one week. Our Residency programs introduce fundamental music dance and theatre skills integrating language arts math and science curriculum by identifying patterns and shapes in dance beats and rhythms. Each residency concludes with a culminating event involving students and faculty. We have conducted more than 60 residencies engaging around 6,800 students.

    Expenses $70,924 · Grants $43,769 · Revenue $19,803

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.

  • Adebola T Olowe

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • Emily Funmilayo Ajamufua

    Teaching Artists

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • Latifat Adepeju Oguntade

    Teaching and Performing Artists

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 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
    $357,115
    Expenses
    $354,622
    Contributions
    $250,111
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $501,155
    Expenses
    $493,953
    Contributions
    $354,033
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $402,920
    Expenses
    $399,966
    Contributions
    $208,369
    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

    Revenue
    $328,516
    Expenses
    $324,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $928,266

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,646,135
    Expenses
    $24,959,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,342,022

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $313,624
    Expenses
    $331,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $805,199

  • 2008 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $225,115
    Expenses
    $234,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,910

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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.