- 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.
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AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONINC
EIN 26-0753160
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AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS INC
EIN 52-1996467
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Nancy Stephens
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Lyndon Boozer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Patrick Brien
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ken Ferguson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ben Folds
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mike Kopp
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dorothy P McSweeny
Director - until 01/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
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Julie Muraco
Director - as of 7/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Felix Sanchez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ann Sheffer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ann S Stock
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
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Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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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
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2024
- Revenue
- $412,729
- Expenses
- $343,358
- Contributions
- $377,767
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $432,907
- Expenses
- $358,155
- Contributions
- $373,822
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $87,047
- Expenses
- $105,599
- Assets (EOY)
- $318,018
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $453,139
- Expenses
- $352,203
- Assets (EOY)
- $322,744
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $448,407
- Expenses
- $376,331
- Assets (EOY)
- $216,063
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $432,096
- Expenses
- $446,334
- Assets (EOY)
- $151,972
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $421,373
- Expenses
- $406,444
- Assets (EOY)
- $157,544
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $530,171
- Expenses
- $519,975
- Assets (EOY)
- $144,216
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $459,974
- Expenses
- $456,528
- Assets (EOY)
- $132,423
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $410,057
- Expenses
- $392,127
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,271
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $405,020
- Expenses
- $394,145
- Assets (EOY)
- $116,600
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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
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$350,000
2024 Annual support to related entity
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$350,000
2023 Annual support to related entity
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
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501(c)(3) · Cultivate, promote, sustain and support the arts in America · DC
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Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC
527 · Political activity · DC · controlled entity
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Arts & Business Council of New York
501(c)(3) · Foster cooperation between business and arts organizations · NY · controlled entity
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Americans for the Arts Foundation
501(c)(3) · Carry out activities and raise funds for Americans for the Arts · DC · controlled entity
Declared as related by
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On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
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AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONINC
On its 2023 return as a controlled entity
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.