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ARTS GOWANUS INC

EIN 75-3192120 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2024
$276,709
Expenses 2024
$254,138

Program services were 51.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
1000
Street
543 UNION ST STE 2B

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

Activities or mission (Part I)

Arts Gowanus is a not-for-profit organization working to support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn

  • To support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn.

    Expenses $131,658 · Revenue $50,959

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Johnny Thornton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $109,928
    From this org
    $109,928
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Kutz

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tracy Penn

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Mainenti

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Julie Mashack

    Secretary (Resigned on Nov. 25, 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Behzad Amiri

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Brendan Aguayo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sally N Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gayah Imani Gillson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Claire Laporte

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JoAnne McFarland

    Director (Resigned on Feb. 20, 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Valerie Ferrier

    Director (Resigned on Feb. 25, 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Demarcus McGaughey

    Director (Resigned on Dec. 3, 2024)

    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
    $276,709
    Expenses
    $254,138
    Contributions
    $216,882
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $500,192
    Expenses
    $347,638
    Contributions
    $197,668
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $234,602
    Expenses
    $173,396
    Contributions
    $160,843
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,705
    Expenses
    $136,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,578

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $93,752
    Expenses
    $80,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,046

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $61,516
    Expenses
    $92,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,762

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $75,373
    Expenses
    $86,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,961

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,782
    Expenses
    $68,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,915

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Abigail G Subak
Mailing address
540 President StreetBrooklyn NY 11215
Website
www.artsgowanus.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.