- Revenue 2025
- $64,228
- Expenses 2025
- $47,600
Program services were 99.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A25
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 5905 ELLIOT AVE
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
Primary exempt purpose
Purple Playground is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, fan-based organization dedicated to honoring Prince's legacy through music education for teens and community-focused initiatives. We created the Academy of Prince, a program where teens learn music history, songwriting, and recording. Key aspects of their mission include: Music Education: Providing free Prince-inspired music education programs for teenagers, including the Academy of Prince, which teaches songwriting, recording, and performance. Legacy and Healing: Continuing Prince's philanthropic legacy of giving and providing a space for fans to heal. Community Impact: Raising funds through events, merchandise, and grants to support their programs. Empowerment: Promoting mental health awareness, self-confidence, and artistic expression through music
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We served over 4 dozen students in the cities of MPLS and St. Paul - many students come from inner city neighborhoods and live in poverty. Our programs helped them increase their musical skills while also adding to their confidence, self-esteem and general well being.
Expenses $47,500 · Grants $68,000
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.
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Heidi Vader
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $11,000
- Compensation
- $11,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 10
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Willie Adams
Education Director
- Total calculated
- $20,000
- Compensation
- $20,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 10
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Purple Playground
0
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $64,228
- Expenses
- $47,600
- Contributions
- $68,000
- Grants paid
- $0
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024
- Tax period
- 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
- Principal officer
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Heidi Vader
- Mailing address
- 5905 Elliot AveMInneapolis MN 55417
- Website
- purpleplayground.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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
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$10,000
2023 FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES
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.