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ARTS FOR LIFE

EIN 56-2250962 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2025
$594,115
Expenses 2025
$602,660

Program services were 71.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A99
Classification
2100
Street
7 BEAVERDAM 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 · 2025

Mission

Arts For Life is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting pediatric patients and families through arts education and engagement. By providing educational arts programs we enrich patients lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families.

  • In 2025, Arts For Life staff and volunteers brought 18,738 visual art, music, and creative writing experiences to 13,927 pediatric patients, their siblings, and family members in three childrens hospitals and communities across North Carolina. Arts For Lifes offerings include in-person art and music programs as well as remote/asynchronous creative opportunities.

    Expenses $428,447 · Revenue $122,300

  • Within our partner hospitals, Arts For Life provides individual inpatient bedside studios, drop-in and group sessions at clinic waiting room art tables, creative projects at patient- and family-centered special events as well as facilitating artmaking with support groups.

  • When families are not getting treated in one of our partner hospitals, are at home, or are unable to have visitors, Arts For Life offers asynchronous creative programs to keep patients active and engaged in the arts. Online, patients have 24/7 access to Arts For Life Anywhere, our online hub of project resources. Additionally, our Artivity art kits are all-inclusive and self-contained projects created and developed especially for our hospital communities.

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.

  • Katharine Phlegar

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $77,715
    From this org
    $70,152
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,563
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charissa McCullers

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Frederick Porter

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sarah Cooke

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Mary Edith Alexander

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Logan Dix

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tim Doby

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Trish Kreck

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel McLauchlin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kimberly Williams Moore

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Allison Sharpe

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Morgan Mathieu Tran

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Drew Williams

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amanda Hollingsworth Wise

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $594,115
    Expenses
    $602,660
    Contributions
    $490,455
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $510,660
    Expenses
    $505,151
    Contributions
    $398,923
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $519,667
    Expenses
    $476,669
    Contributions
    $412,646
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $579,908
    Expenses
    $465,622
    Contributions
    $457,396
    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
    $771,336
    Expenses
    $461,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,229

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $601,910
    Expenses
    $684,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $345,211

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $758,458
    Expenses
    $665,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,994

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $625,616
    Expenses
    $647,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,030

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,168
    Expenses
    $556,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,292

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $445,036
    Expenses
    $444,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,196

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,929
    Expenses
    $393,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $269,108

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $324,620
    Expenses
    $359,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,568

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,033
    Expenses
    $365,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $338,417

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

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