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CREATIVE MINDS NYC INC

EIN 02-0720786 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$998,592
Expenses 2024
$1,057,432

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
2300
Street
35 W 35TH ST RM 701

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

CREATIVE MINDS NYC, INC., DOING BUSINESS AS STORY PIRATES CHANGEMAKERS, CELEBRATES THE WORDS, IDEAS, AND STORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY ENGAGING IN CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN KIDS AND WORLD-CLASS ARTISTS, INCLUDING TOP COMEDIANS, AUTHORS, AND MUSICIANS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE SCHEDULE O CREATIVE MINDS NYC, INC., DOING BUSINESS AS STORY PIRATES CHANGEMAKERS, CELEBRATES THE WORDS, IDEAS, AND STORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY ENGAGING IN CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN KIDS AND WORLD-CLASS ARTISTS, INCLUDING TOP COMEDIANS, AUTHORS, AND MUSICIANS TO ADDRESS THE DISPARITY OF EDUCATION FOR UNDERSERVED STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS. TO DO THIS WE COLLECT STORIES WRITTEN BY KIDS, THEN ADAPT THEM INTO SKETCH COMEDY AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES. WE ALSO TEACH AND INSPIRE CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH HIGH-QUALITY LITERACY PROGRAMS FOR UNDERSERVED KIDS AND SCHOOLS.

  • CREATIVE MINDS NYC INC. CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN TO WRITE STORIES AND GAIN LITERACY SKILLS. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES RESOURCES TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, BOTH IN-PERSON AND DIGITALLY, TO CELEBRATE KIDS' OWN SELF EXPRESSION AND TO OFFER POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT TO YOUNG PEOPLE AS THEY GAIN THE TOOLS TO BECOME CREATIVE THINKERS AND PROBLEM SOLVERS.

    Expenses $902,750 · Revenue $47,500

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.

  • Charles Russo

    CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Allen Hubby

    TREASURER (ROTATED OFF 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Sam Forman

    SECRETARY & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Adrienne Becker

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jonathan Glickman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Laura Heywood

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Eric Cipra

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Khalia Davis

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Nicole Brodeur

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Katherine Espinosa

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Thomas Kail

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Tracey Pakosta

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Lauren Skowronski

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Mikel Davis

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Kate Hoenigsberg

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $998,592
    Expenses
    $1,057,432
    Contributions
    $946,092
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $994,687
    Expenses
    $972,895
    Contributions
    $972,687
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $925,245
    Expenses
    $943,823
    Contributions
    $940,688
    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
    $953,565
    Expenses
    $742,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $688,741

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $709,227
    Expenses
    $654,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $484,831

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $515,511
    Expenses
    $584,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $341,776

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $655,860
    Expenses
    $504,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,430

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $456,611
    Expenses
    $439,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,753

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $374,268
    Expenses
    $374,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,400

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $329,243
    Expenses
    $339,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,999

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $278,609
    Expenses
    $319,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $154,385

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $263,769
    Expenses
    $274,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,744

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $264,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,720

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

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

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 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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.