- Revenue 2024
- $95,205
- Expenses 2024
- $64,830
Program services were 58.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A30
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 63963
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
Primary exempt purpose
The organizations exempt purposes are to provide trauma informed media literacy training to African-American youth and adults; to produce a weekly African-American cultural affairs program; to operate radio and television stations; and to operate media arts and culture centers. Mission Statement: Desert Soul Media Inc. is an educational non-profit bridging the digital divide between access to and training on digital media equipment and software; and the intergenerational underrepresented populations in the digital media arts industry. Our highest priorities are Black and African American youth seniors and families. We are telling our stories our way.
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We provided digital media training to community members. We maintain online and broadcast stations to further support our mission of bridging the digital divide and providing media access to underserved populations. We partnered with local businesses and organizations to provide community programming and public service announcements. We provided opportunities for local artist to showcase their talents in the community.
Expenses $37,773
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.
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Jennifer Davis-Paige
Chair of the Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 25
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Kaja Brown
Executive Director and President and Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 25
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Calvin J Worthen
Vice Chair of the Board and Deputy Director and Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Aqueelah Worthen
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Gabriel Bey
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kenneth Davis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Tiffany Hawkins
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Althea Long
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Leah Marche
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Debra Momon-Sabir
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Tina Taylor
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $95,205
- Expenses
- $64,830
- Contributions
- $67,812
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2023
- Revenue
- $50,775
- Expenses
- $43,531
- Contributions
- $2,806
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2022
- Revenue
- $78,061
- Expenses
- $54,522
- Contributions
- $69,664
- Grants paid
- not reported
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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $56,480
- Expenses
- $45,496
- Assets (EOY)
- $157,134
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $10,296
- Expenses
- $7,381
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,150
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 2019
- Tax period
- 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
- Principal officer
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Leticia Barrett
- Mailing address
- PO Box 67698Phoenix AZ 85082
- Website
- desertsoulmedia.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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
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$30,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$10,000
2022 Disparity gap for minority businesses
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 11 November 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.