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SWEETWATER ART CENTER

EIN 25-1263463 SEWICKLEY, PA

Revenue 2025
$1,579,105
Expenses 2025
$1,110,257

Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A200
Classification
2000
Street
200 BROAD 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To enrich the lives of children and adults in the communities that we serve by providing excellence in arts education and cultural programming.

  • For over four decades, the place that people throughout the region have discovered to create, experience, and celebrate the arts is Sewickleys Sweetwater Center for the Arts. Our mission is simple: to enrich the lives of children and adults in the communities we serve by providing excellence in arts education and cultural programming. Sweetwaters story began in 1975 when a group of friends and neighbors in Sewickley came together to open an arts center where they could study and create art. That first community was small, operating in a single-family home with a pottery studio in a garage. Over the years, Sweetwaters community has grown, and we have transformed to become a regional hub that offers more than 400 classes, 6 gallery exhibitions, 10 musical performances, and countless artist lectures, auctions, and experiences in the arts. We also have a robust outreach program, further expanding our community through partnerships with more than 10 organizations in three counties.

    Expenses $876,568 · Revenue $400,332

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gary Bates

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dr Karen Zyck Galbraith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dr Chad Kanick

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Christopher Chan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Nancy Sansom

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barbara Cooley Thaw

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tracey Staley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sarah Aziz

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Terri Tunick

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jen Young

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Christine Brondyke

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $90,347
    From this org
    $83,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,909
    Hours/week
    40
  • Janice Patz

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Bonita Penn

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stephen Hunter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Marcie Coates

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Shari Dearth

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stacey Neilson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Savannah Perez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Josh Fogle

    Board Member

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,579,105
    Expenses
    $1,110,257
    Contributions
    $1,090,877
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,050,004
    Expenses
    $753,229
    Contributions
    $690,745
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $540,394
    Expenses
    $546,136
    Contributions
    $274,173
    Grants paid
    $1,425

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
    $533,791
    Expenses
    $378,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $376,930
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $467,001
    Expenses
    $333,789
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,852
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,369
    Expenses
    $587,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,809
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,173
    Expenses
    $498,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $201,742
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $481,223
    Expenses
    $570,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,973
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $545,943
    Expenses
    $594,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,607
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $692,565
    Expenses
    $580,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $292,562
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $495,940
    Expenses
    $557,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,602
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,795
    Expenses
    $517,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $228,617
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $540,270
    Assets (EOY)
    $244,333

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.