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OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER

EIN 27-0087282 ASHEVILLE, NC

Largest nonprofits in North Carolina

Revenue 2025
$1,106,381
Expenses 2025
$1,123,890

Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
1200
Street
217 COXE 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

Mission

OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER IS SUPPORTIVE STUDIO AND ART GALLERY DEDICATED TO REPRESENTING AND EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH VARIED ABILITIES TO CONNECT TO AND REACH THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH THE ARTS

  • PROVIDED A HABILITATIVE DAY PROGRAM ENVIRONMENT IN PERSON AND VIA TELEHEALTH FOR APPROXIMATELY 51 INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES TO WORK ON SET GOALS FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF INDEPENDENCE. THESE SET GOALS INCLUDED BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, AND INTRAPERSONAL WELL BEING. IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, VISUAL, PERFORMANCE, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, AND LINGUISTICAL ARTS CLASSES ARE HELD 5 DAYS A WEEK, 6 HOURS A DAY, APPROXIMATELY 248 DAYS OF THE YEAR. OPEN HEARTS IS THE ONLY PROGRAM IN THE COMMUNITY THAT PROVIDES COLLEGE LEVEL ARTS CLASSES AT A PACE DESIGNED FOR THIS POPULATION.

    Expenses $1,041,786

  • THE BOUNDLESS ART PROJECT IS AN INITIATIVE PROJECT IS AN INITIATIVE PROJECT OF OPEN HEARTS TO INTEGRATE OUR CLIENTS DEEPER WITH ITS LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY. THIS PROJECT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR CLIENT ARTISTS TO TAKE ART RELATED, EDUCATIONAL, AND LOCAL TRIPS. THIS IS ALSO THE TIME WHERE CLIENT ARTISTS HELPED TO MAINTAIN THEIR BOOTHS AT VARIOUS VENDING LOCATIONS, MAKE CONTACTS IN THEIR ART COMMUNITIES AND PRACTICE THE NECESSARY SOCIAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS NEEDED TO TURN THEIR ART INTO A MEANINGFUL LIVING.

    Expenses $11,003

  • PROVIDED THE SUPPLIES, GUIDANCE, AND MARKETING OF ARTS AND HELD LIVE EVENTS AND 12 OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO SELL THEIR WORK TO THE PUBLIC. OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER ARTISTS SOLD $79,442 IN ARTWORK.

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.

  • Sonia Pitts

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $88,735
    From this org
    $88,735
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jessie Francis

    TREASURER AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $84,945
    From this org
    $84,945
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Debbie Harris

    SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $65,037
    From this org
    $65,037
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32
  • Connie Falcone

    PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brenda Sinners

    VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel S Huffenus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melinda McLaughlin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cindy Wolff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Grace

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,106,381
    Expenses
    $1,123,890
    Contributions
    $206,209
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,058,381
    Expenses
    $1,039,359
    Contributions
    $189,026
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $997,074
    Expenses
    $1,011,422
    Contributions
    $274,545
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $878,517
    Expenses
    $850,141
    Contributions
    $244,796
    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
    $891,931
    Expenses
    $807,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $896,904
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,028,762
    Expenses
    $724,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $649,921
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $893,167
    Expenses
    $917,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,228
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $993,372
    Expenses
    $889,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,004
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $820,390
    Expenses
    $816,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,720
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $702,712
    Expenses
    $678,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,470
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $617,169
    Expenses
    $596,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $240,433
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,391
    Expenses
    $476,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,721
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $373,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,174

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.