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ESSEX ART CENTER INC

EIN 04-3238501 LAWRENCE, MA

Revenue 2024
$891,190
Expenses 2024
$939,685

Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A250
Classification
2000
Street
56 ISLAND 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

Essex Art Center is a community-based creative hub in Lawrence, Massachusetts, using art as a catalyst to bring people together, spark conversations that matter, and build community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Essex Art Center uses art to bring people together, spark conversations, and build community.

  • We believe in the power of art to change not just the way we see the world, but the way we live. Essex Art Center sees everyone as an artist, and we help artists and art lovers connect with their creativity. Each year, the Center reaches 10,000 individuals. Our arts education programs serve artists of all ages. We offer diverse studio courses, including ceramics, drawing, digital art, painting, animation, Risograph printing, and stained glass. We make learning accessible to everyone by providing affordable studio classes and workshops with special financial assistance to Lawrence residents, including 75% off for youth 18 years or younger and 30% off for adults. In addition, we hold public art and design entrepreneurship programs for teens and a work-mentorship program for high school and college students. Participants in our public art and design programs receive stipends for their work, as do students in our work-mentorship program. Essex Art Center's exhibition program sees art as a connector in our community and a platform for communication about issues that matter. Our galleries serve as a source of inspiration for our students and a teaching tool for our teachers. We are strategic in the artists we exhibit, working to amplify underrepresented voices and ensuring that the work is responsive to what's happening in the world and relevant to our community. Our exhibitions and their correlating programming are always free and open to the public.Essex Art Center's community outreach programs bring the creative experience beyond our walls. From off-site offerings in schools and community centers to special events, such as free figure drawing nights and art college admissions fairs, these programs put into practice our belief that art brings us together. Our summer block party, Fiesta en la calle!, brings together people of all ages to enjoy live music, dance performances, food, and artmaking. Throughout the year, our community outreach programs reach 3,000 individuals, with Fiesta en la calle!, connecting us with 2,000 residents from Greater Lawrence in just one day.

    Expenses $715,646 · Grants $59,364 · Revenue $229,035

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.

  • Anne Thiam

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Merylinda Santiago

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Therkelsen

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Allison Rieke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Caitlyn Aguiar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Juan Carlos Cedeno

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Milly Joseph

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maria L Laboy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jose Rodriguez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Bloom

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Felipe Collazo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,750
    From this org
    $2,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Monica Manoski

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $92,128
    From this org
    $89,366
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,762
    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
    $891,190
    Expenses
    $939,685
    Contributions
    $624,382
    Grants paid
    $59,364
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $715,289
    Expenses
    $755,872
    Contributions
    $581,057
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $563,654
    Expenses
    $615,633
    Contributions
    $343,985
    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
    $781,644
    Expenses
    $512,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $860,046

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,176
    Expenses
    $443,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $620,567

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $442,330
    Expenses
    $501,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $422,242

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,954
    Expenses
    $509,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,648

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,519
    Expenses
    $502,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $502,135

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $622,469
    Expenses
    $487,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $511,504

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,787
    Expenses
    $498,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $377,234

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,826
    Expenses
    $489,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $421,965

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $486,048
    Assets (EOY)
    $450,705

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $479,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $487,568

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.

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 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.