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AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS INC

EIN 52-1996467 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,355,263
Expenses 2024
$9,442,393

Program services were 67.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A010
Classification
1200
Street
1275 K ST NW STE 1200

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 Americans for the Arts (AFTA) is to serve, advance, and lead the network of lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America.

Activities or mission (Part I)

See Schedule O.The mission of Americans for the Arts (AFTA) is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America.

  • Research and policy: Research and policy is responsible for national society. This research is conducted using various methods and is disseminated through meetings, media and publications that are widely distributed. Signature programs in this area include the arts & economic prosperity study, national arts index and studies on various topics such as local arts funding statistics, united arts fundraising local arts salary information, cultural districts and more that provide important case making data to all arts advocates. The creative forces program serves military service members with traumatic brain injuries at military facilities.

    Expenses $6,404,744 · Grants $404,526 · Revenue $376,674

  • Government and public affairs: Government and public affairs is responsible for all government affairs work and developing partnerships with government and other non-governmental organizations to promote the value of the arts and mission of AFTA's two key programs, including herein are the annual Nancy Hanks lecture on arts and public policy and arts advocacy day activities. This area also includes our arts education policy work advancing equitable access for arts education across the country.

  • Local arts advancement: Local arts advancement is responsible for providing professional development, case making information and networking opportunities to the many organizations and individuals that work to build stronger communities through the Arts every day they do this work through major convening such as the Annual Convention and National Arts Marketing Project Conference to smaller gatherings like Executive Leadership Forum at Sundance. They also convene networks of core constituencies including Public Art, Emerging Leaders, Rural Arts, County Arts, The US Urban Arts Federation, The New Community Visions Initiative and more. In addition, the implement the membership program and ensure our members receive strong benefits that help achieve their goals.

  • Scholarships and Awards

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Nolen Bivens

    President & CEO - until 05/24

    Total calculated
    $224,704
    From this org
    $216,196
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,508
    Hours/week
    34.5 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,196
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,792
    Nontaxable benefits
    $716
    Filer's total
    $224,704

  • Edgar L Smith Jr

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michelle Boone

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Haworth

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Cutler

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Torrie Allen

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Theo Edmonds

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marc Folk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Golden

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Goode

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Debra Garcia y Griego

    At Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dorothy Pierce McSweeny

    At Large - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Brian Stokes Mitchell

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie C Muraco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Kristina Newman-Scott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Newman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ravi S Rajan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ira Sallen

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Stephens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 1 related

  • Ann S Stock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Caridad Mozur

    Senior VP, Develop. - until 07/24

    Total calculated
    $176,553
    From this org
    $161,504
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,049
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,504
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,014
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,035
    Filer's total
    $176,553

  • Nina Ozlu Tunceli

    Counsel & Exec. Dir., AAF

    Total calculated
    $185,739
    From this org
    $157,529
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,210
    Hours/week
    27.5 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,529
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,597
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,613
    Filer's total
    $185,739

  • Randy Cohen

    VP, Research & Policy

    Total calculated
    $278,919
    From this org
    $244,778
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,141
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $244,778
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,510
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,631
    Filer's total
    $278,919

  • Maria Elmeralda Paguaga

    VP, Strategic Communications

    Total calculated
    $214,778
    From this org
    $206,394
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,384
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,394
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,867
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,517
    Filer's total
    $214,778

  • Colin Ball

    VP, People and Culture

    Total calculated
    $202,232
    From this org
    $184,120
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,112
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,120
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,248
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,864
    Filer's total
    $202,232

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,355,263
    Expenses
    $9,442,393
    Contributions
    $298,381
    Grants paid
    $404,526
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,646,886
    Expenses
    $11,850,513
    Contributions
    $815,766
    Grants paid
    $864,626
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,922,122
    Expenses
    $15,535,917
    Contributions
    $3,951,827
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,323,160
    Expenses
    $17,947,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,282,841

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,131,826
    Expenses
    $16,016,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,544,965

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,933,692
    Expenses
    $18,312,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,574,422

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,957,715
    Expenses
    $17,778,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,908,039

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,097,880
    Expenses
    $16,084,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,418,515

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,672,309
    Expenses
    $18,412,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,210,488

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,701,174
    Expenses
    $15,520,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,299,531

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

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Grants received

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 on its 2024 return

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.