WORKHOUSE ARTS FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A54

Classification

1000

Street

9518 WORKHOUSE RD

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

• Education Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation provides arts classes, workshops, camps and education to the general public, as well as the military community through the Workhouse Military in the Arts Initiative, offering a total of over 100 classes quarterly and 25 camps annually, in approximately 15 disciplines, to children and adults of all ability levels. The Workhouse dedicates approximately 12 teaching classrooms in 7 buildings on the campus. Each year over 1,500 students enrolled in more than 425 classes, workshops, and camps that are taught by nearly 60 teaching artists. Approximately 30% of the teaching artists are also Workhouse campus artists. The Workhouse Arts Foundation also provides movement-based wellness and fitness classes through the Art of Movement program. Classes include traditional fitness classes, meditative movement, creative movement classes, and youth gymnastic fundamentals programs through our Kidnastics Gymnastics initiative. Art of Movement offers a total of over 600 classes annually to over 2,000 students of all ages.

  Expenses $1,026,229 · Revenue $966,866

• Performing Arts Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation provides more than 150 individual performances annually in theatre, dance, music, and film, including our annual Haunted Trail interactive-performance event. In addition to productions created in-house, the department also offers a robust 'presenting' series in which local (and touring) musicians and performing artists are programmed as part of our season calendar. In addition, these venue spaces are available for community organizations and other performing arts groups to be able to present their works to our neighbors. Through our connection to the Fairfax County Park Authority, the Workhouse Arts Foundation has been proud to host free concerts on Saturday nights during the Summer as part of the Mt Vernon Nights initiative.The Workhouse Arts Foundation has multiple performance spaces including a 100-seat black box theater, and a 300-seat outdoor performance pavilion with room for several hundred more in the lawn areas adjacent to the stage. Our McGuireWoods Gallery has also hosted musical concerts and stand-up comedy performances throughout each season and has a capacity of 150 persons. In addition to traditional performing arts (theatre, music, and dance) our venues have also been host to films, lectures, our annual Independence Day fireworks celebration, and educational experiences related to performing arts and the history of our campus.

  Expenses $886,912 · Revenue $695,267

• Studio Artists and Visual Arts: The Workhouse Visual Arts Program provides essential professional support through two key initiatives. We offer approximately 60 below-market rate studio spaces, maintaining an average 97% occupancy, which supports over 55 juried artists who create, exhibit, and sell their work on-site. The program also supports an almost 20 additional juried visual artists through exhibition and sales opportunities in the Arches gallery. The Workhouse produces roughly 100 annual art exhibitions across diverse disciplines including but not limited to painting, glass, ceramics, fiber arts, and photography. A significant portion of these are juried, competitive, and national in scope, demonstrating a commitment to fostering professional artistic careers.

  Expenses $344,775 · Revenue $354,776

• Museum and History Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation operates the Lorton Prison Museum featuring the Lucy Burns Gallery, a free-admission institution located within the former Lorton Correctional Complex (1910-2001). The museum engages visitors by exploring the site's evolution from a Progressive Era reformatory to a significant adaptive reuse project. Key themes include the site's critical role in the American women's suffrage movement and its eventual failure as an American carceral site. These stories are brought to life through curated exhibitions, educational tours, and diverse public programming. The department is led by a Museum Director, supported by five full- and part-time staff members and a dedicated team of volunteer docents who steward this unique cultural legacy for the community.

  Expenses $209,168 · Revenue $8,222

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.

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

  $3,315,099

  Expenses

  $3,559,274

  Contributions

  $1,088,594

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,371,158

  Expenses

  $2,966,912

  Contributions

  $605,314

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,525,378

  Expenses

  $3,078,817

  Contributions

  $882,207

  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

  $2,754,088

  Expenses

  $3,049,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,095,292

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,307,119

  Expenses

  $1,946,020

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,026,678

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,287,682

  Expenses

  $2,255,436

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,782,183

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,405,102

  Expenses

  $2,259,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,830,442

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,536,680

  Expenses

  $2,378,191

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,588,899

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,468,465

  Expenses

  $2,132,581

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,249,356

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,678,769

  Expenses

  $2,124,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,961,178

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,243,525

  Expenses

  $1,968,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,857,620

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,196,571

  Expenses

  $2,335,795

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,745,796

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

• ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC

  $42,955

  2023 · OPERATING SUPPORT AND PROJECT SUPPORT GRANT

• ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC

  $40,124

  2024 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• SENTARA HEALTH

  $35,500

  2024 · BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE

• ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC

  $18,015

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $18,000

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• FORGOOD INC

  $17,368

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• SENTARA HEALTH

  $15,000

  2022 · WORKHOUSE MILITARY IN THE ARTS INITIATIVE (WMAI)

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2024 · ARTS AND CULTURE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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