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RECESS ACTIVITIES

EIN 27-1109399 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2024
$647,315
Expenses 2024
$1,925,488

Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
2000
Street
46 WASHINGTON AVE

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

RECESS PARTNERS WITH ARTISTS AND YOUTH TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE CREATIVE COMMUNITY. BY WELCOMING RADICAL THINKERS TO IMAGINE AND SHAPE NETWORKS OF RESILIENCE AND SAFETY, RECESS DEFINES AND ADVANCES THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART. OUR PROGRAMS OFFER SPACE AND RESOURCES TO GENERATE ART, IDEAS AND ACTIONS THAT CHALLENGE DOMINANT NARRATIVES AND ACTIVATE NEW FORMS. RECESS IS ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO SERVE AS A MEETING PLACE FOR MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE ACROSS A MULTIPLICITY OF COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

RECESS PARTNERS WITH ARTISTS AND YOUTH TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE CREATIVE COMMUNITY.

  • RECESS PROGRAMS REIMAGINE TRADITIONAL STUDIO, EXHIBITION, AND CLASSROOM PLATFORMS, OFFERING ARTISTS, COMMUNITIES, AND PARTICIPANTS RESOURCES TO GENERATE NEW WORKS THAT PRESENT ALTERNATIVES TO DOMINANT AND OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS. OUR CORE PROGRAMS OPERATE WITHIN AN ECOSYSTEM WHEREIN EACH INITIATIVE SUPPORTS AND INFORMS THE OTHER. ASSEMBLY OFFERS SYSTEM-IMPACTED YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 18-26 AN INROAD TO ART AND CONNECTIONS TO WORKING ARTISTS, WHILE SERVING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INCARCERATION AND ITS INTERSECTING SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION. SESSION ALLOWS ARTISTS TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE AND PARTNER WITH COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE CREATIVE PROCESS. FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE AND NARRATIVE SHIFT. CRITICAL WRITING SUPPORTS A WRITER PRODUCING A NEW CRITICAL TEXT IN DIALOGUE WITH OUR ARTISTS' PROJECTS.PARTNERSHIPS TAKE OUR PROGRAMS OFFSITE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHARE OUR COMMITMENT TO ART AS IT INTERSECTS WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE.

    Expenses $1,349,114 · Revenue $3,236

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.

  • Malcolm Che Gossett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $3,000
    From this org
    $3,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wanett I Clyde

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $1,650
    From this org
    $1,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthonine Pierre

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $3,000
    From this org
    $3,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lacey Lynch

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $3,000
    From this org
    $3,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsay C Harris

    EX-OFFICIO / CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $142,377
    From this org
    $107,154
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,223
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shaun Leonardo Thru 93024

    EX-OFFICIO / CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,648
    From this org
    $72,241
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,407
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paul Kim

    FORMER CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Hatch-Miller

    FORMER SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jan Postma

    FORMER TREASURER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $647,315
    Expenses
    $1,925,488
    Contributions
    $584,430
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,264,432
    Expenses
    $1,824,203
    Contributions
    $4,227,558
    Grants paid
    $10,394
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,592,889
    Expenses
    $1,695,447
    Contributions
    $1,550,704
    Grants paid
    $5,500

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
    $4,047,332
    Expenses
    $2,212,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,059,748

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $952,511
    Expenses
    $933,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,062,698

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,346,300
    Expenses
    $935,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $965,626

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $933,894
    Expenses
    $706,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,412

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $458,066
    Expenses
    $472,467
    Assets (EOY)
    $276,039

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,291
    Expenses
    $366,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,410

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $351,987
    Expenses
    $334,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $190,960

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 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Allison Weisberg
Mailing address
41 Grand Street Ground FloorNew York NY 10013
Website
www.recessactivities.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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.