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OCTAGON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

EIN 42-0937490 AMES, IA

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Revenue 2024
$310,524
Expenses 2024
$253,784

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A40Z
Classification
2300
Street
427 DOUGLAS 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 · 2024

Mission

AN ART CENTER THAT FOSTERS ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS BY PROVIDING A PLACE WHERE THE ARTS ARE TAUGHT TO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES;TO GIVE SERIOUS PRACTICING ARTISTS A MEETING PLACE TO WORK TOGETHER,EXCHANGE IDEAS, AND DISCUSS COMMON INTERESTS;AND TO OFFER ACTIVITIES THAT WOULD STIMULATE AND APPRECIATE THE ARTS.

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS,CLASSES,OUTREACH FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS FOR AMES, IOWA AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES IN POTTERY, PHOTOGRAPHY, DANCE, VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS NOT OFFERED ELSEWHERE.

    Expenses $179,920

  • EXHIBITS, LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS DISPLAYS GENERALLY FREE OF ADMISSION, SUPPLEMENT FOR EDUCATION, HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE.

    Expenses $26,864

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.

  • Heather Johnson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $47,000
    From this org
    $47,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Heather Lanning

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sean Thornton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Galen Wilke

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rachael Rail

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $310,524
    Expenses
    $253,784
    Contributions
    $142,088
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $178,209
    Expenses
    $224,423
    Contributions
    $100,478
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $341,548
    Expenses
    $230,621
    Contributions
    $66,797
    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
    $208,870
    Expenses
    $235,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $545,263

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $315,556
    Expenses
    $194,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $563,893

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $176,555
    Expenses
    $217,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,974

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $266,820
    Expenses
    $265,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $488,868

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $232,483
    Expenses
    $240,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $486,512

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,756
    Expenses
    $235,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $486,967

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,235
    Expenses
    $242,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,259

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $235,012
    Expenses
    $230,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $454,319

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,101
    Expenses
    $247,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $455,846

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $258,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $438,548

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

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.