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ARTS AND CULTURE ALLIANCE OF GREATER KNOXVILLE

EIN 62-0962249 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2024
$4,273,193
Expenses 2024
$1,793,568

Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A26Z
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 2506

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

THE MISSION OF THE ARTS & CULTURE ALLIANCE OF GREATER KNOXVILLE IS TO SERVE AND SUPPORT A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS, ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SERVE AND SUPPORT A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS, ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS.

  • COMMUNITY SERVICES - THE ALLIANCE PROVIDES MANY SERVICES AND TOOLS TO HELP ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL, INCLUDING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE, PLANNING TOOLS, GRANT PREPARATION, AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION SERVICES.

    Expenses $1,606,847 · Grants $1,240,466 · Revenue $14,542

  • ADVOCACY - THE ALLIANCE OPERATES AS A UNIFYING VOICE REPRESENTING THE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMUNITY TO GOVERNMENT, BUSINESSES, THE MEDIA, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ALL OF WHICH BENEFIT FROM A HEALTHY, THRIVING ARTS AND CULTURE INDUSTRY. THE ALLIANCES ADVOCACY PROJECTS ALSO CREATE A CHANNEL FOR ARTISTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS TO EXPRESS THEIR UNIQUE VOICES INDIVIDUALLY.

    Expenses $43,726

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.

  • Liza Zenni

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Stephen Bailey

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julia Bentley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Butler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margo Clark

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Esrequis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Claudio Gomez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Caesar Stair IV

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Larsen Jay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Jones

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Reggie Law

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Powers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Sellers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Thomas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Coral Turner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendel Werner

    DIRECTOR

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,273,193
    Expenses
    $1,793,568
    Contributions
    $3,960,319
    Grants paid
    $1,240,466
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,581,776
    Expenses
    $1,940,346
    Contributions
    $2,334,115
    Grants paid
    $1,530,073
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,388,952
    Expenses
    $2,501,583
    Contributions
    $2,154,854
    Grants paid
    $2,077,903

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
    $1,108,020
    Expenses
    $1,004,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,199,560
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $910,546
    Expenses
    $826,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $494,766
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $830,589
    Expenses
    $840,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $404,657
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $876,619
    Expenses
    $858,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,252
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $988,794
    Expenses
    $811,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $332,961
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $768,443
    Expenses
    $770,086
    Assets (EOY)
    $284,350

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.