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STARTING ARTS INC

EIN 01-0552155 SAN JOSE, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,610,345
Expenses 2024
$2,568,130

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1200
Street
99 NOTRE DAME 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).

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

STARTING ARTS WAS FOUNDED IN 2002 WITH THE MISSION TO MAKE ARTS EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL STUDENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SCHOOLS. WE BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO STIMULATE AND EDUCATE STUDENTS TO REACH THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL THE CREATIVE ARTS ARE A NECESSARY COMPONENT OF THE EDUCATION PROCESS. OUR PASSION IS TO PROVIDE HANDS-ON ARTS EDUCATION IN FOUR ARTS DISCIPLINES - DANCE, THEATER, MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS - IN CLASSES TAUGHT BY SKILLED PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS. CLASSES ARE CALIFORNIA STATE STANDARDS-BASED AND ALIGN WITH COMMON CORE STANDARDS. STARTING ARTS IS CURRENTLY PROVIDING ARTS EDUCATION TO OVER 125 SCHOOLS AND SERVING OVER 45,000 STUDENTS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON TITLE 1 SCHOOLS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ARTS OF THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS.

  • THEATRE PRODUCTIONS: UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORS, CHOREOGRAPHERS AND MUSIC DIRECTORS, STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-12 REHEARSE FOR 10-12 WEEKS IN PREPARATION FOR A PROFESSIONAL STAGE PRODUCTION, COMPLETE WITH COSTUMES, PROPS, LIGHTS, SOUND AND SETS. THIS PROGRAM TEACHES STUDENTS THEATRE SKILLS, TEAMWORK AND DISCIPLINE. THEATRE PRODUCTIONS CAN BE PERFORMED ONSITE AFTER SCHOOL AS WELL AS IN OUR STUDIOS LOCATED IN SAN JOSE. CURRENTLY, STARTING ARTS PRODUCES OVER 70 PRODUCTIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. STARTING ARTS ALSO PROVIDES AN INTENSIVE ?TRIPLE-THREAT? DANCE, THEATRE AND VOICE PROGRAM CALLED DREAM TEAM. WE HAVE 2 GROUPS: DREAM TEAM GRADES 9-12 AND DREAM TEAM 2 GRADES 5-8. STUDENTS WORK ON TECHNIQUE AS WELL AS PERFORMANCE. ONCE A MONTH, THEY RECEIVE MASTER CLASS WORKSHOPS WITH INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS. THIS PROGRAM IS BY AUDITION ONLY AND IS DESIGNED FOR SERIOUS STUDENTS READY TO TAKE THEIR TRAINING TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

    Expenses $1,360,485 · Revenue $1,071,723

  • SCHOOL PROGRAMS: SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AND ENHANCE GENERAL EDUCATION GOALS AND INCORPORATE THE CALIFORNIA VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS STANDARDS. WE ALSO PROVIDE COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMS TO ENHANCE ANY EXISTING ARTS ENRICHMENT THE SCHOOLS MAY HAVE ONSITE. BEFORE AND AFTER-SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAMS OFFER CLASSES IN ALL FOUR DISCIPLINES: DANCE, VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC AND THEATRE. CLASSES MEET EITHER ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK FOR 10- 12 WEEKS, CULMINATING WITH A CONCERT/EXHIBITION.

    Expenses $646,390 · Revenue $1,012,028

  • WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING: create community by providing art enrichment for all students

    Expenses $52,225 · Revenue $22,829

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.

  • Ann Watts

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $125,878
    From this org
    $124,632
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,246
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Russo

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Liza Neudecker

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Thurber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Samuels

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Benjamin Picard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caterina Peterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Jo Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Han Le

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Curley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Amelia Hausauer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristin VanderPas

    Director

    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
    $2,610,345
    Expenses
    $2,568,130
    Contributions
    $461,988
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,426,297
    Expenses
    $2,555,419
    Contributions
    $206,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,344,948
    Expenses
    $2,438,673
    Contributions
    $273,472
    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
    $2,251,851
    Expenses
    $1,985,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,206,965

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,052,847
    Expenses
    $1,324,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $926,336

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,236,726
    Expenses
    $2,220,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,211,256

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,077,175
    Expenses
    $2,075,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,348,104

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,746,080
    Expenses
    $1,720,249
    Assets (EOY)
    $379,373

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,622,290
    Expenses
    $1,561,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $324,441

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,314,493
    Expenses
    $1,327,908
    Assets (EOY)
    $189,715

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,189,512
    Expenses
    $1,232,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,033

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $933,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,711

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $821,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,876

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

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.

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