- Revenue 2024
- $476,703
- Expenses 2024
- $577,293
Program services were 75.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 887
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
COLAB ARTS ENGAGES ARTISTS, SOCIAL ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITIES TO CREATE TRANFORMATIVE NEW WORK.
Activities or mission (Part I)
COLAB ARTS ENGAGES ARTISTS, SOCIAL ADVOCATES, AND COMMUNITIES TO CREATE TRANSFORMATIVE NEW WORK
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COLAB ARTS GENERATES COMMUNITY-POWERED PROJECTS AND SEEKS TO CREATE AN ART SCENE USING NEW AND ESTABLISHED SPACES. ITS WORK TAKES PLACE IN COMMUNITY ROOMS, HOUSES OF WORSHIP, PARKING LOTS, SCHOOLS, BARS, AND BACKYARDS. A LETS GET IT DONE WORK ETHIC AND FLAIR FOR MISCHIEF COLORS COLAB ARTS AESTHETIC AND AN EMPHASIS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEFINES ITS COMMITMENT TO THE ARTS.
Expenses $214,672
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.
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Daniel SwernDANIEL SWERN
PRODUCING DI
- Total calculated
- $59,615
- From this org
- $59,615
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Elise BrancheauELISE BRANCHEAU
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Nicole BrownsteinNICOLE BROWNSTEIN
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Barry ShermanBARRY SHERMAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Erica NagelERICA NAGEL
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Christina BriskinCHRISTINA BRISKIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Monique ColemanMONIQUE COLEMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carla HaynesCARLA HAYNES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dustin BallardDUSTIN BALLARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carolina MorattiCAROLINA MORATTI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Perry FarhatPERRY FARHAT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jin Hi RheemJIN HI RHEEM
DIRECTOR
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $476,703
- Expenses
- $577,293
- Contributions
- $228,914
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $832,339
- Expenses
- $524,424
- Contributions
- $620,369
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $537,694
- Expenses
- $377,045
- Contributions
- $395,187
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $358,713
- Expenses
- $403,389
- Assets (EOY)
- $299,528
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $364,224
- Expenses
- $239,920
- Assets (EOY)
- $260,056
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $246,538
- Expenses
- $206,411
- Assets (EOY)
- $106,507
-
2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $166,980
- Expenses
- $182,955
- Assets (EOY)
- $46,180
-
2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $162,141
- Expenses
- $121,452
- Assets (EOY)
- $59,655
-
2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $69,622
- Expenses
- $76,402
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,166
-
2015 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $81,709
- Expenses
- $67,045
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,433
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012
- Tax period
- 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013
- Principal officer
-
Brian Redin
- Mailing address
- 139-2 Third StreetKeyport NJ 07735
- Website
- www.colab-arts.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2025 TO SUPPORT THE CONTINUED RECRUITING AND TRAINING OF DOCUMENTERS, SCHEDULING ASSIGNMENTS, PROVIDING NECESSARY RESOURCES AND SUPPORT, ENSURING CONSISTENT ATTENDANCE AND NOTE-TAKING AT PUBLIC MEETINGS, EDITING AND POSTING CONTENT, AND PROMOTING AWARENESS ABOUT THE PROGRAM. GRANT AMOUNT INCLUDES A $25,000 ADMIN FEE TO CITY BUREAU.
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2024 DOCUMENTORS
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2023 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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2022 O CREATE A NEW COMMUNITY-BASED COLLECVE MEMORY INIAVE IN THE ESPERANZA AND UNITY SQUARE NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEW BRUNSWICK THROUGH TEATRO ESPERANZA
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$34,871
2022 Neighborhood Project
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$22,256
2023 Neighborhood Revitalization
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2024 General
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2024 GENERAL PROGRAM
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2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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2022 Program Support
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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.