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ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL

EIN 58-1371546 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2023
$690,753
Expenses 2023
$590,735

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A26Z
Classification
1000
Street
67 BROADWAY STREETSUITE 216

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 · 2023

Mission

The mission of ArtsAVL (formerly Asheville Area Arts Council) is to keep the arts at the heart of our community. The Arts Council fulfills its mission by supporting arts professionals and businesses in Buncombe County through Connection, Advocacy, and Grants.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Keep the arts at the heart of our community. ArtsAVL fulfills its mission by supporting arts organizations and artists in Buncombe County through connection, advocacy, and grants.

  • Connection- ArtsAVL is connecting the community to creatives and creatives to each other through a new Creative Portal microsite launched in early 2023. Members receive access to a dashboard that not only provides them with resources but also allows them to create a public-facing directory profile. With a directory profile, members can provide information about their business and work and share upcoming events and opportunities. ArtsAVL is also making it easy to explore Ashevilles art scene while supporting arts businesses with the ArtsAVL Trolley program. This free service links key arts destinations in Downtown Asheville and the River Arts Districts. Data shows a marked increase in both patronage and sales on trolley days. Monthly impact surverys from businesses in the RAD and Downtown are reporting a 46% increase in sales and a 52% increase in visitors on Trolley Days than on non-trolley days.

    Expenses $488,601 · Grants $252,068 · Revenue $12,700

  • Advocacy- In addition to annual Creative Economy reporting, ArtsAVL partnered with Americans for the Arts on the 6th nationwide Arts & Economic Prosperity Study published in October 2023 and led a Creative Spaces study looking at studio and performance space needs in Asheville Metro published in May 2024. ArtsAVL also held a series of three ArtsAVL Town Hall events which focused on Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Arts Marketing, and Creative Spaces, and hosted the annual State of the Arts Brunch. The Brunch celebrates our creative side while demonstrating the major role the arts play in Buncombe County. Additionally, ArtsAVL advocated for continuation of the Citys strategic event partnership funding and increased state funding support for the arts.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Katie Cornell

    Executive Director/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $79,506
    From this org
    $79,506
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Pete Perez

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brandy Bourne

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lori Hines

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Harper

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lauren Brunk

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Micah Mackenzie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luke Lingle

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Liz Whalen Tallent

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Ager

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexa Kincaid

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin Moore

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hannah Randall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaye Phillips Zusmann

    Board Member

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $690,753
    Expenses
    $590,735
    Contributions
    $678,596
    Grants paid
    $252,068
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $641,426
    Expenses
    $569,174
    Contributions
    $607,648
    Grants paid
    $219,730

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
    $256,410
    Expenses
    $293,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,005

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,867
    Expenses
    $490,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $267,568

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $172,949
    Expenses
    $297,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,690

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $279,633
    Expenses
    $365,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,555

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,502
    Expenses
    $390,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $370,916

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,218
    Expenses
    $302,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $394,242

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $230,260
    Expenses
    $337,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,008

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,648
    Expenses
    $323,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $550,552

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $615,646
    Expenses
    $175,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $600,072

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $137,105
    Expenses
    $174,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,756

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.