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CULTURINGUA

EIN 84-1940407 SAN ANTONIO, TX

Revenue 2024
$681,200
Expenses 2024
$711,829

Program services were 83.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1200
Street
10401 W INTERSTATE 10

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 · 2024

Mission

Culturingua is a community & economic development organization whose mission is to preserve, promote, and enhance the cultural character in and around San Antonios Silk Road Cultural Heritage District.

  • Arts and Culture: Documented cultural significance of Silk Road Cultural Heritage District, which was formally recognized by City of San Antonio in Dec. 2024. Documented oral histories of 2 Silk Road businesses for San Antonio Legacy Business Program. Gave Silk Road tours, lectures, and talks, including panel hosted by Texas Public Radio and City of San Antonio World Heritage Office to highlight Silk Road culinary contributions. Hosted poetry night attended by 50 people with local poets celebrating civic engagement. In Cultural Exchange, increased cross-cultural collaboration and cultural competencies of 343 high school students in San Antonio and Libya. Taught Arab culture and Arabic language to 209 students during a youth summer camp. Led culturally-responsive peer support including expressive art activities to support integration and wellbeing of 300 refugee youth.

    Expenses $361,806 · Grants $14,081 · Revenue $2,025

  • Art-Based Small Business: Support art-based entrepreneurs and small business owners in and around the Silk Road Cultural Heritage District. Supported 168 individuals to either start art-based businesses or improve employment skills at art-based businesses in the cultural textile and culinary industries. 4 individuals legally incorporated their business. Culturingua provided 1:1 technical assistance to 2 established culinary cultural businesses in the Silk Road for access to capital, tailored training programs, and access to other resources to support small business growth. As a result, Culturingua enabled these businesses to obtain $35,000 in combined grants to grow their small businesses.

    Expenses $173,668

  • Silk Road Community Land Trust (CLT): Worked with community to develop strategy for the CLT to enable artists and low-income residents to achieve affordable homeownership in and around the Silk Road Cultural Heritage District. Visited and learned from existing, mature CLTs nationally. Provided input to City of San Antonio for development of CLT Designation Policy, which was approved by San Antonio City Council in Oct. 2024. Served 43 individuals in financial education courses. Impact: 6 individuals checked their credit score, 2 achieving an increase in their credit score by an average of 20 points. 1 individual who previously had no credit established credit. 11 individuals created a savings plan. 6 individuals created full budget. 6 individuals increased savings. 1 individual established and maintained a savings habit for at least 3 consecutive months.

    Expenses $58,335

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.

  • Nader Mehdawi

    Co-Ex. Director

    Total calculated
    $148,155
    From this org
    $148,155
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nadia Mavrakis

    Co-Ex. Director

    Total calculated
    $134,306
    From this org
    $134,306
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Oladao Olaleye

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patricia Ponton

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Ray

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kerry Haupert

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ali Hakeem

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Empson

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bilal Deiri

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $681,200
    Expenses
    $711,829
    Contributions
    $677,055
    Grants paid
    $14,081
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $681,200
    Expenses
    $711,829
    Contributions
    $677,055
    Grants paid
    $14,081
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $933,869
    Expenses
    $817,313
    Contributions
    $898,697
    Grants paid
    $11,770
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $732,610
    Expenses
    $388,534
    Contributions
    $724,923
    Grants paid
    $25,143
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $732,610
    Expenses
    $388,534
    Contributions
    $724,923
    Grants paid
    $25,143

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
    $250,071
    Expenses
    $125,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,424

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $75,832
    Expenses
    $65,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,049

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Nadia Mavrakis
Mailing address
8920 John Barrett DriveSan Antonio TX 78240
Website
www.culturingua.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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.