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ARTSMART

EIN 81-1536431 PHILADELPHIA, PA

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Revenue 2024
$985,869
Expenses 2024
$958,491

Program services were 71.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
1200
Street
1315 WALNUT ST STE 300

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).

Other organizations at this address

9 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ARTSMART SEEKS TO MAKE THE WORLD FULLER, MORE OPEN, AND MORE ADVANCED BY EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS TO PURSUE THEIR DREAMS IN ART AND MUSIC. WE PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY MUSIC LESSONS AND INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCES TO STUDENTS WHO WOULDN'TOTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ARTSMART IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF YOUTH IN UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE US THROUGH TUITION-FREE MUSIC LESSONS AND MENTORSHIP BY PAID, PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS. SINCE 2016, ARTSMART IS OPERATING IN 8 REGIONS IN TITLE 1 SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE US, PROVIDING NEARLY 35,000 MUSIC LESSIONS BY PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS, AND PAYING OUR MENTORS MORE THE 1.4 MILLION IN COMPENSATION FOR THEIR EXPERTISE.

  • TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY MUSIC LESSONS AND INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCES TO STUDENTS WHO WOULDN'T OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEM.

    Expenses $685,013

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.

  • John Viscardi

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $35,576
    From this org
    $35,576
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Liz Letak

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $18,000
    From this org
    $18,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Kelly Clarke

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Marvin Curtis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Fabiano

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Fabiano

    BOARD CHAIR/

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • George Shirley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Louise Toppin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lilian C Tsai

    BOARD MEMBER

    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
    $985,869
    Expenses
    $958,491
    Contributions
    $962,089
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $888,869
    Expenses
    $882,858
    Contributions
    $876,893
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $770,788
    Expenses
    $742,713
    Contributions
    $728,536
    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
    $527,326
    Expenses
    $527,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $196,077

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $431,026
    Expenses
    $382,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,239

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $398,061
    Expenses
    $434,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,485

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,868
    Expenses
    $169,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,019

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $98,989
    Expenses
    $39,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,489

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

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.