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AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS ACTION FUND

EIN 20-1427963 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$412,729
Expenses 2024
$343,358

Program services were 58.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
A20
Classification
3000
Street
1275 K ST NW STE 1200

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

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1200). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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

American for the Arts Action Fund (the Action Fund) was formed to engage citizens in education and advocacy in support of the arts and arts education. Its activities are designed to educate members and the general public on the arts and arts education generally, and the impact of governmental policies and actions on the arts. The Action Fund also works to mobilize members and the general public to become more active in helping influence those governmental policies and actions.

Activities or mission (Part I)

American for the Arts Action Fund was formed to engage citizens in education and advocacy in support of the arts and arts education. Its activities are designed to educate members and the general public on the arts and arts education generally, and the impact of governmental policies and actions on the arts. The Action Fund also works to mobilize members and the general public to become more active in helping influence those governmental policies and actions.

  • Public Education - The Action Fund publishes and distributes to its members, potential members and others print and electronic newsletters and other communications (including print materials included with member recruitment mailings) information, regarding the arts and arts education and in particular legislative and regulatory developments that impact the arts and arts education (primarily Federal, state and local governmental funding).

    Expenses $147,257

  • Citizen Involvement - The Arts Action Fund urges its members to become more involved in public policy to favorably impact governmental actions that affect the arts and arts education, and instruct its members on how to become so involved.

    Expenses $53,075 · Revenue $34,232

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.

  • Nolen Bivens

    President & CEO - until 05/24

    Total calculated
    $224,704
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $216,196
    Other
    $8,508
    Hours/week
    3 + 34.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $216,196 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,792 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $716 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $224,704 related
  • Nancy Stephens

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Lyndon Boozer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Brien

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ken Ferguson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ben Folds

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Colleen Jennings-Roggensack

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Kopp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dorothy P McSweeny

    Director - until 01/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • Julie Muraco

    Director - as of 7/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Felix Sanchez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann Sheffer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann S Stock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • Colleen Jennings-Roggensack

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nina Ozlu Tunceli

    Chief Counsel and Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $319,945
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $271,352
    Other
    $48,593
    Hours/week
    10 + 27.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $271,352 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $16,531 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $32,062 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $319,945 related

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $412,729
    Expenses
    $343,358
    Contributions
    $377,767
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $432,907
    Expenses
    $358,155
    Contributions
    $373,822
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $65,746
    Expenses
    $111,380
    Contributions
    $21,664
    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
    $87,047
    Expenses
    $105,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $318,018
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,139
    Expenses
    $352,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $322,744
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,407
    Expenses
    $376,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,063
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,096
    Expenses
    $446,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,972
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $421,373
    Expenses
    $406,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,544
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,171
    Expenses
    $519,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,216
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $459,974
    Expenses
    $456,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,423
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,057
    Expenses
    $392,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,271
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $405,020
    Expenses
    $394,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,600
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $481,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,221

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.