ARTIST TRUST

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A91Z

Classification

1000

Street

1211 E DENNY WAY A25

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 · 2025

• Artist Trust's Artist Support Programs include business practices workshops and webinars, online resources, networking and mentorship events, town halls, artist surveys, focus groups, and other programs that provide career-training and professional development opportunities for artists and help us discover and make visible issues impacting the livelihoods of artists. Over 2,800 artists and community members were served by these programs in 2025.

  Expenses $248,894 · Revenue $7,791

• Artist Trust Fellowship Awards are unrestricted merit-based awards of $10,000 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability. Recipients are selected through an open, competitive panel process. In 2025 there were 15 Fellowship Award recipients, including 1 Vadon Foundation Fellowship Award for Native Artists, 1 Fellowship Award for Black Artists, 1 Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Fellowship Award, and 1 Lillian Miller Foundation Fellowship Award for Trans* and Indigiqueer Artists.

  Expenses $195,959 · Grants $150,000

• Other Grant Programs include the unrestricted merit-based Arts Innovator Awards of $25,000 given to 2 artists and $500 given to 6 additional finalists, Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement Award of $10,000 given to 1 artist, the Support Old Lady Artists (SOLA) Award of $5,000 given to 5 artists, and other activities to administer Artist Trust's grant programs; all recipients are selected through an open, competitive panel process.

  Expenses $155,338 · Grants $88,000

• Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 for artists working in all disciplines across Washington State. Recipients are selected through an open, competitive panel process. There were 65 GAP recipients in 2025.

  Expenses $150,138 · Grants $97,500

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $2,090,907

  Expenses

  $1,170,388

  Contributions

  $2,215,760

  Grants paid

  $335,500

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,253,841

  Expenses

  $1,260,667

  Contributions

  $1,268,682

  Grants paid

  $435,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,017,579

  Expenses

  $1,340,120

  Contributions

  $1,107,727

  Grants paid

  $440,530

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,002,177

  Expenses

  $1,234,640

  Contributions

  $1,051,138

  Grants paid

  $430,929

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

  $1,717,549

  Expenses

  $1,312,791

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,043,221

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,115,189

  Expenses

  $1,687,584

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,487,176

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,281,582

  Expenses

  $1,172,196

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,799,473

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,717,318

  Expenses

  $1,182,096

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,388,873

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,603,796

  Expenses

  $1,209,733

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,895,523

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,437,440

  Expenses

  $1,396,059

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,304,440

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $910,358

  Expenses

  $1,077,236

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,522,368

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,504,932

  Expenses

  $1,099,562

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,782,023

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,105,228

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,208,618

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,036,315

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,880,038

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

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $100,150

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• ARTSFUND

  $50,614

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ARTSFUND

  $45,294

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $45,000

  2024 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT

• CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC

  $32,500

  2022 · EDUCATION & TRAINING

• CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC

  $32,500

  2023 · EDUCATION & TRAINING

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $30,966

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2023 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2023 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2022 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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