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LEAF COMMUNITY ARTS

EIN 54-2123478 BLACK MTN, NC

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Revenue 2024
$1,133,723
Expenses 2024
$1,388,997

Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
377 LAKE EDEN 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

LEAF GLOBAL ARTS IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSING ON BUILDING COMMUNITY, CONNECTING CULTURES, AND ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH THE ARTS, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY, WITH FESTIVALS, COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

COMMUNITY CULTURAL EVENTS, FESTIVALS, AND ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS

  • LEAF EVENTS LEAF FESTIVAL IS LEAF'S FOUNDING EVENT. AN INTER- GENERATIONAL COMMUNITY GATHERS AT LAKE EDEN IN BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA FOR A DYNAMIC EXPERIENCE OF MUSIC, ART, AND CULTURE FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. LEAF DOWNTOWN CELEBRATES CREATIVITY, DIVERSITY, AND FAMILIES IN THE HEART OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. THIS SIGNATURE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY EVENT ENCOURAGES INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGE, CULTURAL AWARENESS, ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, AND WELCOMING SPACES FOR ALL WALKS OF LIFE.

    Expenses $892,210 · Grants $60,402 · Revenue $245,053

  • LEAF IN SCHOOLS AND STREETS A LOCAL CULTURAL ARTS PROGRAM THAT ISES THE ARTS TO BRIDGE CULTURES AND CREATE LIFE-AFFIRMING, COMMUNITY BUILDING EXPERIENCES, AND EMPOWERING YOUTH TO BECOME GLOBAL CITIZENS, LEADERS, AND AGENTS OF POSITIVE CHANGE.

    Expenses $189,757 · Revenue $16,743

  • LEAF INTERNATIONAL A COLLABORATION DEDICATED TO CULTURAL PRESERVATION, EXCHANGE, AND FOSTERING GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP. LEAF COLLABORATES WITH COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT CULTURE-KEEPERS WHO TEACH LOCAL YOUTH THEIR TRADITIONAL ARTS.

    Expenses $71,616

  • LEAF GLOBAL: THE LEAF GLOBAL ARTS EXPERIENCE IS A CREATIVE IMMERSIVE AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE THAT WEAVES TOGETHER ELEMENTS OF AN INTERACTIVE MUSEUM AND AN ARTS CENTER.

    Expenses $147,618 · Revenue $45,644

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Jennifer Pickering

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $58,337
    From this org
    $58,337
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Leigh Maher

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $33,333
    From this org
    $33,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Cori Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Bubenik

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicole Cush

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tiffany De'Bellot

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Dowd

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jennifer Gaymu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Warren Givens

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Hale

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Amy Kawar

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Herbert Kinobe

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jay Lively

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jay Moye

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justice Rogers

    CHAIR EMERIT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Brian Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rick Stevenson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Trenton Thomas

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Noah Wilson

    SECRETARY/WH

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $1,133,723
    Expenses
    $1,388,997
    Contributions
    $791,857
    Grants paid
    $60,402
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,666,389
    Expenses
    $1,883,824
    Contributions
    $675,363
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,688,239
    Expenses
    $1,875,841
    Contributions
    $625,383
    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
    $2,454,886
    Expenses
    $1,351,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,845,862
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,530,622
    Expenses
    $2,202,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,858,833
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,640,020
    Expenses
    $2,260,640
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,369,702
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,239,738
    Expenses
    $2,186,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,005,048
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,280,598
    Expenses
    $1,981,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $979,866
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,151,928
    Expenses
    $1,871,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $729,988
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,924,128
    Expenses
    $1,851,070
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,264
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,574,782
    Expenses
    $1,556,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,337
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,470,624
    Expenses
    $1,461,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,519
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,266,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,956

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 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.