UPSTREAM ARTS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Street

3501 CHICAGO AVENUE SOUTH

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 · 2025

• SCHOOLS: IN 25-26, WE CARRIED OUT SEMESTER OR YEAR-LONG SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION/ INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS, REACHING STUDENTS AGES BIRTH TO 21 WITH A RANGE OF DISABILITIES IN MINNESOTA. IN OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMS, TEAMS OF LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS LEAD MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS ACTIVITIES IN THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, POETRY AND VISUAL ARTS DESIGNED TO BUILD SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL, HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS. WE WORK IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS AROUND THE METRO AREA, WITH OUR BIGGEST PRESENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

  Expenses $8,741 · Revenue $11,016

• ADULT: IN 25-26, WE CARRIED OUT ADULT PROGRAMS INCLUDING A FOCUS ON ART OF RELATIONSHIPS AND ART OF PREVENTION PROGRAMMING, OUR INNOVATIVE SEX EDUCATION AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS PROGRAMMING THAT WORKS TO PREVENT AND ADDRESS THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC IN THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY. IN OUR PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS, TEAMS OF LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS LEAD MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS ACTIVITIES IN THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, POETRY AND VISUAL ARTS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP SOFT SKILLS SPECIFIC TO SELF ADVOCACY, THE WORKPLACE, HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES AGES 21-75+. THESE PROGRAMS ALSO BENEFIT SUPPORT STAFF IN DISABILITY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARENTS/ GUARDIANS/ SUPPORT STAFF, WHO RECEIVE TRAINING ON CREATIVE STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE VOICE AND CHOICE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. SOME OF OUR ADULT PROGRAMS ARE RUN IN COLLABORATION WITH ADULT DAY PROGRAMSORGANIZATIONS WHERE ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES RECEIVE SOCIAL AND VOCATIONAL SERVICES. WE ALSO OFFER OPEN ENROLLMENT SELF ADVOCACY CLASSES FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES WHERE THE ARTS OFFER A WAY TO NURTURE SELF-EXPRESSION AND SELF-DETERMINATION; ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES CAN USE THEIR MN STATE WAIVERED DOLLARS TO ATTEND THESE CLASSES.

  Expenses $215,274 · Revenue $20,014

• COMMUNITY/OUT OF STATE/MILWAUKEE: UPSTREAM ARTS CARRIES OUT COMMUNITY PROGRAMS WITH PARKS AND RECREATION, LIBRARIES, CHURCHES AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. WE ALSO DO TOURING COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING AND TRAINING OUTSIDE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. WE HAVE AN ONGOING PRESENCE IN MILWAUKEE, WI, WHERE WE CARRY OUT SCHOOL, ADULT AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING AS WELL AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUALLY. WE CARRY OUT REGULAR PROGRAMMING WITH MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. WE WORKED AT MILWAUKEE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER WITH THEIR ADULT CHAVERIM GROUP, AND WITH THEIR NEW ADULT DAY PROGRAM. WE ALSO CARRIED OUT RESIDENCIES IN MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS, AND OFFERED A ROBUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING SERIES FOR MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPECIAL EDUCATION EDUCATORS.

  Expenses $29,771 · Revenue $13,000

• ARTIST TRAINING: BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT ARTISTS ARE THE CATALYSTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE, EACH YEAR WE INVEST IN TRAINING OUR ROSTER OF 30+ TEACHING ARTISTS WHO TEACH OUR PROGRAMS. WE PROVIDE TRAININGS ON UPSTREAM ARTS' APPROACH TO ACCESSIBLE ARTS-INFUSED INSTRUCTION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, AND BRING IN EXTERNAL TRAINERS ON DISABILITY, ARTS OR EDUCATION RELATED TOPICS.

  Expenses $14,178

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $218,576

  Expenses

  $590,074

  Contributions

  $172,005

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,126,684

  Expenses

  $1,301,158

  Contributions

  $897,131

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $949,057

  Expenses

  $962,267

  Contributions

  $616,247

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $771,093

  Expenses

  $939,742

  Contributions

  $502,705

  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

  $982,473

  Expenses

  $912,302

  Assets (EOY)

  $767,921

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,055,637

  Expenses

  $859,819

  Assets (EOY)

  $806,686

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $917,780

  Expenses

  $836,266

  Assets (EOY)

  $605,284

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $873,350

  Expenses

  $842,205

  Assets (EOY)

  $386,535

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $759,537

  Expenses

  $763,537

  Assets (EOY)

  $355,588

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

• MINNESOTA COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT

  $96,000

  2024 · Subgrantee-CPPP

• MINNESOTA COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT

  $75,000

  2022 · Sexual violence prevention

• GENESIS MOTOR AMERICA FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · Grant to arts programming at the community level for youth

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $28,417

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• MINNESOTA COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT

  $26,860

  2023 · Sexual violence prevention

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $23,780

  2023

• SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $21,000

  2023 · MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR PROGRAMS, OPERATIONS, OR OTHER PURPOSES

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $20,354

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

  $12,000

  2022 · PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

  $12,000

  2023 · PD FOR MILWAUKEE EDUCATORS & RESIDENCIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

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

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