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COSACOSA ART AT LARGE INC

EIN 23-2613697 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2024
$257,663
Expenses 2024
$255,905

Program services were 84.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
4427 MAIN ST

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

COSACOSA creates new public art specific to the concerns of Philadelphia neighborhoods in direct, long-term collaboration with city residents. Through multidisciplinary art and media projects, COSACOSA asserts art's original role advancing community dialogue, creative cooperation, and positive change.

Activities or mission (Part I)

COSACOSA creates new public art specific to the concerns of Philadelphia neighborhoods in direct, long-term collaboration with city residents. COSACOSA asserts art's original role advancing community dialogue, creative cooperation, and positive change.

  • COSACOSA's Art & Health initiative is a nationally recognized program bringing individuals with disabilities and/or in long-term hospital care together with local community members to learn new artistic techniques and about each other. Participants collaborate with professional artists to design and create new large-scale public artworks for the neighborhood healthcare facilities, community centers, and schools.

    Expenses $107,398

  • COSACOSA's Art & Civic Engagement initiatives, including youth development and education, explore Philadelphia's diverse cultural histories and changing urban landscapes. Project participants collaborate with professional artists to create large-scale public arts, film, music, and interactive media projects on issues of concern to their neighborhoods. COSACOSA develops new models for city residents to use the arts to build social capital and strategically plan for their communities.

    Expenses $108,736

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.

  • Kimberly Niemela

    President and Director

    Total calculated
    $69,813
    From this org
    $45,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,813
    Hours/week
    50
  • Ernie Bristow

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Deng

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sari Fogel

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Cynthia Barnes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Manu Dutt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Lemisch

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Siomara Lopez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • George Muller

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anne Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $257,663
    Expenses
    $255,905
    Contributions
    $245,980
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $256,403
    Expenses
    $252,807
    Contributions
    $245,082
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $252,407
    Expenses
    $235,476
    Contributions
    $240,757
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,861
    Expenses
    $215,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,005
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,156
    Expenses
    $184,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,550

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.

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

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.