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AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE

EIN 03-0502955 PHILADELPHIA, PA

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Revenue 2024
$550,290
Expenses 2024
$768,317

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1000
Street
3645 LANCASTER AVENUE 1

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

Mission

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers artistic and educational programming that enriches understanding and celebrates diversity, while supporting the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity and playing a constructive civic role within broader American Society.

  • ARTISTIC PRESENTATIONS: PRESENTATIONS OF RENOWNED ARAB LITERARY, VISUAL, AND PERFORMING ARTISTS TO STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $310,421

  • ARAB CULTURAL ARTS/ARTS INSTRUCTION: OFFERING IN AND AFTER SCHOOL ARTS CLASSES IN A VARIETY OF ARTISTIC MEDIA FOR STUDENTS TO EXPLORE THEIR LIVES AND HERITAGE, AND DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOMPANYING CURRICULUM MATERIAL FOR EDUCATORS. THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES MUSIC INSTRUCTION, AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, AND INTERACTIVE ONLINE PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $206,370

  • AL-BUSTAN CAMP: AN ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS, HELD FOR THREE WEEKS EVERY JULY SINCE 2002, WITH AN INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, ARTS, AND NATURE STUDY CURRICULUM ORGANIZED AROUND ARAB CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL THEMES.

    Expenses $70,171

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Mohannad M Ghwanmeh

    Former Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $34,314
    From this org
    $34,314
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $34,314
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $34,314

  • Lisa Volta-Zalloum

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $15,000
    From this org
    $15,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lisa Denberry

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Regina Morgan

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • IKRAM MASMOUDI Jr

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alexa Firat

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Emily Neumeier

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BETSY MESARD Sr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lamia Barakat

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alexandria Khalil

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Martyn J Miller

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ibrahim M Bakri

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Irene Pelech Zwarych

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $550,290
    Expenses
    $768,317
    Contributions
    $454,584
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $506,832
    Expenses
    $635,031
    Contributions
    $457,390
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,037,817
    Expenses
    $651,757
    Contributions
    $989,781
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $816,516
    Expenses
    $663,497
    Contributions
    $768,480
    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
    $807,218
    Expenses
    $483,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $854,485

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $675,261
    Expenses
    $499,795
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,977

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.