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YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS

EIN 20-8857392 BERKELEY, CA

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Revenue 2023
$1,285,714
Expenses 2023
$1,217,388

Program services were 83.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
1740 ALCATRAZ AVE

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 · 2023

Mission

The mission of YSA is to provide holistic engagement and opportunities to transitional age youth impacted by adverse economic and housing challenges, utilizing Art as Therapy and by celebrating Youth Empowerment in community. Services include transitional supportive housing, case management, workshops, and leadership development.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Youth Spirit Artworks provides services to youth and young adults by offering holistic healing, arts workshops, and leadership development, case management, peer support, mental health, and transitional housing in a trauma informed system of care

  • Art as Healing / Healing and Personal Development: YSA programs provide local youth and young adults with life skills, professional development, healing clinics, mental health resources and supports, educational workshops, leadership development, and peer to peer support, through a Positive Youth Development framework.

    Expenses $440,235

  • The Tiny House Village is a transitional housing and healing space that provides youth from Berkeley and Oakland(ages 18-25) shelter, housing navigation, case management and healing services. Youth receive wrap around support to make the next step into permanent housing.

    Expenses $527,450

  • Community and Belonging: Cultural and Artistic events, an annual Healing Clinic and Community brunches take place at the Tiny House Village and at the Berkeley Studio that are open to the public, and provide youth participants with opportunities to showcase their talents and engage with the community.

    Expenses $43,060

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Karini Periera Bowers

    Operations Director/Current ED

    Total calculated
    $115,833
    From this org
    $115,833
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Suzanne Sutton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tom McAninley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexandra Childs

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anika Dokes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Valerie Silva

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Saphonia Foster

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jasmine Braxton

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randall Hudson

    Treasurer

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,285,714
    Expenses
    $1,217,388
    Contributions
    $1,285,714
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,568,560
    Expenses
    $1,804,725
    Contributions
    $1,554,402
    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
    $1,798,625
    Expenses
    $1,322,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,586,617

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,122,595
    Expenses
    $748,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,084,392

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 May 2010.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.