AS 220

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A600

Classification

2000

Street

95 MATHEWSON ST

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 · 2023

• AS220 YOUTH works with young people aged 14-21 through 5 crews: fashion media arts music dance and visuals. AS220 Youth operates out of 3 primary locations: the Downtown Youth Studio; Nowell Academy a charter school focusing on pregnant and parenting teens; and the Rhode Island Training School the states juvenile detention center where we have been working for over 25 years. This exposure to the arts taps into often-overlooked creative potential offering a powerful learning experience for young people. In FY2024 AS220 Youth ran 92 ongoing classes and served 360 young people including 83 Youth apprentices. AS220 Youth also premiered 2 full studio shows in FY24: FUTUREWORLDS 7 in September 2023 and FUTUREWORLDS 8 in June 2024.

  Expenses $786,726 · Revenue $464,581

• LIVE ARTS & GALLERIES: We provide an unjuried uncensored all ages forum for the arts; every artist residing in Rhode Island has the opportunity to exhibit or perform their original work in our venues. AS220 presents an extraordinary range of activities and our unjuried and uncensored booking policy ensures that a limitless variety appears on our stages and on our walls. Live Arts venues include the Main Stage the Black Box and Psychic Readings and these venues host live music theater dance performance art poetry slams film screenings late night programming fashion shows workshops festivals and more. In fiscal year 2024 Live Arts presented over 300 performances and events with over 2,600 artists and attendance of over 15,000. The AS220 Galleries include the Main Gallery the Project Space the Reading Room the Resident Gallery and the Aborn Gallery and feature visual artists working in various mediums on a monthly rotating schedule. In fiscal year 2024 the galleries curated exhibitions featuring 135 visual artists including 107 first-time exhibitors with attendance of over 4,200. In the Aborn Gallery we also continued to intentionally curate timely exhibitions. This model is now being used to support artists and curators who otherwise would not have an opportunity to show work with a focus on projects that: engage with critical social issues relevant to and urgent in our community; present projects that bring new voices to the gallery and AS220 community; uplift artists at critical junctions in their career; and might be outside the traditional parameters of a gallery exhibition and or push against boundaries of the mainstream.

  Expenses $423,802 · Revenue $200,332

• LIVE WORK: AS220 owns and manages three mixed-use buildings in downtown Providence Rhode Island totaling approximately 100,000 sq. ft. We offer affordable housing and studio space for over 60 artists on the upper floors of each of our three downtown buildings including 47 live work studios and 8 work-only studios. Each of our buildings includes a mix of affordable residences artist studios and public AS220 programming. We also provide offices space for 4 other non-profit organizations and have 6 commercial tenants all of which are local one-of-a-kind businesses. Permanent affordable artist housing has been key to transforming downtown providence into a vibrant place to live and work over the past 30 years. Our tenants are a core foundation of the AS220 community and have access to AS220 resources. They also help support the community through volunteer work.

  Expenses $395,421 · Revenue $103,373

• AS220 COMMUNITY STUDIOS and AS220 DANCE are AS220s formal adult education programs. Community Studios is a cross-disciplinary arts education space and community studio comprising a Media Arts Lab Fabrication Lab Printshop Visuals & Fashion Studio and Community Darkroom. In addition to providing members access to professional tools and equipment for artistic production Community Studios has offered educational workshops from beginner to advanced levels since 2011. By providing affordable access to studio space tools of the trade and varied training opportunities Community Studios has fostered a dynamic environment for learning and making as well as small business development and production. In FY2024 it also became the home of AS220 Youth. In FY2024 138 regular members participated at Community Studios and 224 students attended 45 workshops and events. AS220 Dance hosts weekly classes in many dance and movement forms as well as rehearsal space for dancers. In FY2024 11 regular dance instructors held 320 class sessions for 1,941 students. These two programs also supported the launch of our Creative Leadership project in FY2024. The 14 Fellows 12 of whom completed the program were supported in a year-long program through which they learned about event curation being a teaching artist arts nonprofit management and creative leadership.

  Expenses $356,586 · Revenue $248,836

• OTHER PROGRAMS: Other programs includes organization-wide programming such as AS220s participation in the Citys PVD Fest as well as supporting and incubating small and fledgling arts groups and other aligned startup organizations as they grow into their own nonprofits.

  Expenses $775,984 · Revenue $415,151

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,639,758

  Expenses

  $3,593,089

  Contributions

  $970,332

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,090,397

  Expenses

  $3,101,274

  Contributions

  $833,066

  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

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,442,996

  Expenses

  $2,472,638

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,745,095

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,950,370

  Expenses

  $2,125,114

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,567,795

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,188,031

  Expenses

  $2,809,345

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,007,342

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,439,303

  Expenses

  $2,546,755

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,418,849

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,245,767

  Expenses

  $2,804,465

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,036,536

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,402,163

  Expenses

  $2,536,852

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,953,248

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

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

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $298,114

  2024 · ART - ARTS AND CULTURE (PRIMARY)

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $215,600

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $122,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $42,100

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MENTOR RHODE ISLAND - THE RI MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC

  $33,381

  2022 · OPERATING

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $30,451

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $17,300

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JUNE ROCKWELL LEVY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

  $15,000

  2022 · YOUTH PROGRAMS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $15,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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