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BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS

EIN 47-0653927 OMAHA, NE

Revenue 2025
$3,532,405
Expenses 2025
$2,535,329

Program services were 73.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A900
Classification
1000
Street
724 S 12TH 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).

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.

  • TODD SIMON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • TOM SIMMS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS RUSSELL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • MARCIA KERRIGAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • ARUN AGARWAL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN BARTELS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LILI CHENG

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCUS FISCHER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEVIN FOX

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY FRIEDMANN-SANCHEZ

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILIANO LERDA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEE EMMA RUNNING

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • POLINA SCHLOTT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOAQUIN SEGURA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AARON SHADDY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RODRIGO VALENZUELA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN ELLIS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY LUND

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNETTE SMITH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS COOK

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $181,940
    From this org
    $167,493
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,447
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,493
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,927
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,556
    Filer's total
    $181,976

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,532,405
    Expenses
    $2,535,329
    Contributions
    $3,314,717
    Grants paid
    $304,263
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,786,406
    Expenses
    $2,362,095
    Contributions
    $1,450,602
    Grants paid
    $317,293
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,509,643
    Expenses
    $2,284,447
    Contributions
    $2,238,191
    Grants paid
    $283,945

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
    $2,093,050
    Expenses
    $2,529,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,863,974

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,947,724
    Expenses
    $2,271,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,317,453

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,890,331
    Expenses
    $2,030,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,531,897

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,252,212
    Expenses
    $1,774,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,908,719

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,697,683
    Expenses
    $1,699,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,581,371

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,258,319
    Expenses
    $1,447,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,763,753

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,302,707
    Expenses
    $1,504,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,819,598

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,125,951
    Expenses
    $1,480,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,024,199

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,558,924
    Expenses
    $1,709,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,188,819

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,881,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,252,860

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