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AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC

EIN 26-3416729 AUGUSTA, GA

Revenue 2024
$342,121
Expenses 2024
$265,851

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
2000
Street
1129 BROAD 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 · 2024

Mission

WESTOBOU FOSTERS A VIBRANT, CULTURALLY-RICH COMMUNITY BY SUPPORTING ARTISTS AND THEIR IDEAS TO PRESENT ENGAGING, CREATIVE AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES.

  • WESTOBOU GALLERYDESIGNED AS A CONTEMPORARY VENUE FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF EXHIBITIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WESTOBOU GALLERY OFFERS CURATED EXHIBITIONS BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL ARTISTS WITH A FOCUS ON EMERGING AND MID-CAREER CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS. WESTOBOU GALLERY OPENED IN MAY 2015. SINCE THEN, THE GALLERY HAS PRESENTED VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS THAT INCLUDED WORK BY A MULTITUDE OF ARTISTS. ANNUALLY, WESTOBOU PRESENTS 5-6 EXHIBITIONS INCLUDING CURATED SHOWS, A LOCAL ARTIST FEATURE, STUDENT SHOW, AND A JURIED SMALL WORKS SHOW. EXHIBITIONS ARE TYPICALLY OPEN FOR 6-8 WEEKS AND INCLUDE SPECIAL EVENTS LIKE ARTIST TALKS, GALLERY TOURS, AND WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTIONS.PROJECT COMMISSIONSWESTOBOU SUPPORTS CREATIVE, CULTURAL, CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO MURALS, INSTALLATIONS, SMALL CONCERTS, SHORT FILMS, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, POP-UP EXHIBITIONS, SPOKEN WORD AND FOOD EVENTS.INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR ONE OR MORE PROJECTS. THOSE CHOSEN ARE COMMISSIONED UP TO $5,000 TO IMPLEMENT THEIR PROJECT.WESTOBOU ARTIST IN RESIDENCEWESTOBOU AIMS TO INSPIRE CREATIVITY IN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION AND COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT. THIS INSPIRED US TO CREATE A YEAR-LONG ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVES IN THE AUGUSTA AREA.THE WESTOBOU ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM AWARDS FREE STUDIO SPACE TO AN EMERGING OR MID-CAREER AUGUSTA-BASED VISUAL ARTIST FOR ONE YEAR AT THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART (GHIA). THE PROGRAM PROVIDES A STIPEND FOR RESEARCH, TOOLS AND SUPPLIES TO BUILD A BODY OF WORK FOR AN EXHIBITION AT WESTOBOU GALLERY. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GHIA, THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE TEACHES A YEAR-LONG WORKSHOP SERIES TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

    Expenses $222,398 · Revenue $76,114

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.

  • ELIZABETH FERRARA

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • WES CHILDERS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • HALLEY BADGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CLAIRE RICHE

    FUNDRAISING CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAFIA CARTWRIGHT

    MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN PRICE

    MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR ANTHONY ROBINSON

    MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY GRACE WYNN

    MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELL BERRY

    MEMBER EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATTHEW PORTER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $65,100
    From this org
    $65,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $342,121
    Expenses
    $265,851
    Contributions
    $266,007
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $304,738
    Expenses
    $299,511
    Contributions
    $271,520
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $287,092
    Expenses
    $294,662
    Contributions
    $260,601
    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
    $345,892
    Expenses
    $306,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $236,995

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,004
    Expenses
    $274,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,710

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $531,588
    Expenses
    $431,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,819

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $558,479
    Expenses
    $582,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,911

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,146
    Expenses
    $571,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,898

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $591,271
    Expenses
    $645,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,221

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $675,325
    Expenses
    $643,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,088

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $582,422
    Expenses
    $585,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,006

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $537,580
    Expenses
    $526,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,975

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $641,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,491

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Beth Morrison
Mailing address
540B Telfair StreetAugusta GA 30901

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.