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THE ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS - CULTURE INC

EIN 13-3044606 SPOKANE, WA

Revenue 2024
$599,817
Expenses 2024
$772,821

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A300
Classification
2000
Street
1919 S SYRINGA 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 · 2024

Mission

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Alliance leads national programs in media arts, digital equity, and emerging technologies.

  • Arts2Work: Arts2Work is a creative workforce initiative sponsored by The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, winner of the MIT SOLVE Prize for Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US. Arts2Work includes the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship program in Media Arts + Creative Technologies, including new career pipelines for Multimedia Producers, Digital Video Editors and Multimedia Graphic Designers. It provides new infrastructure, equity and economic sustainability for artists and creative workers, businesses, organizations, communities and institutions across the US. Arts2Work prioritizes equity and inclusion with special outreach to BIPOC, low-income workers, women, youth, veterans and disabled communities. (Continued on Schedule O)The ecosystem of Arts2Work includes a national network of Creative Studios and Training Centers, Pre-Apprenticeship programs that include paid learn-on-the-job experiences, Registered Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship Labs and an online Learning Hub with free tutorials, networking and access to mentorship for anyone seeking to build a career in media. The Alliance sponsors Arts2Work-affiliated programs in Baltimore, Albany, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Oakland, Colorado Springs, and Watts, with others on the way. We also provide an NEA-supported Arts2Work online Learning Hub, offering digital media and technology-focused tutorials, networking events and mentoring for all creative job-seekers to access training free-of-charge. https://arts2work.media/

    Expenses $524,419 · Revenue $153,938

  • General Program and Conference: Under General Program services, we offer a Digital Resource Library, an online Screening Room, the Storytelling Matters Blog, a Job Board, a monthly E-Bulletin and an Arts2Work Newsletter. We also offer a limited Fiscal Sponsorship program for invited projects that align with the Alliance mission. We are currently the fiscal sponsors for a groundbreaking documentary film about slavery and reparations in America entitled Acts of Reparation, by award-winning filmmakers Macky Alston and Selina Davidson. We also use General Program for pilot programs that serve the media arts field that do not yet fall under existing program headings.

    Expenses $109,865 · Revenue $3,866

  • Alliance Youth Media Network: The Alliance Youth Media Network programs convene, connect, nurture and sustain strategic development in the Youth Media field. We support innovative and emerging models of practice within the fields of youth media, creative youth development, and media literacy. We do this through the collaborative production of a youth media magazine, ongoing Collective Action work, hosting national Video Roundtables and a global Youth Media Summit, mentoring a cohort of Youth Media Fellows each year, and supporting the leaders of a national network of youth media organizations. All of the programs of our Youth Media Network use an intergenerational, co-creative approach as a means to demonstrate the possibilities and impact of a range of youth and elders working collaboratively and (Continued on Schedule O) inclusively, interrogating power and privilege across program areas, with the goal of providing new models and emerging practices for the field. We also offer the Unlocking Creativity Community of Practice, a regular gathering of local and national media organizations that work intentionally with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and justice-impacted youth. We convene monthly meetings for these organizations and offer opportunities for collaboration, funding, and exhibition throughout the year.

    Expenses $21,979 · Grants $16,750 · Revenue $6,771

  • Innovation Studio: The Innovation Studio program supports the development of unique interactive digital media projects, platforms, tools and approaches to storytelling designed to foster strong, resilient creative communities. We think in systems, build replicable models, and take risks with new technology. Our teams are diverse, intergenerational and collaborative. Strategy, design, development, and prototyping in the Alliance Innovation Studio is customized uniquely for each project. We bring together a team of creative and tech experts based on the needs of the project; the central requirement for inclusion in the Innovation Studio is a commitment to sharing out the development process with the field and making the project available for replication in diverse communities and contexts. In every case, we will publish the code, share the data and provide templates or toolkits to enable meaningful and effective adoption. Projects developed in the Innovation Studio include the Open Archive Initiative, Alliance XR Gallery and Futures We Dream, a national creative collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.

    Expenses $47

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.

  • Chris Johnson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Doversberger

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anula Shetty

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Frye

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kasandra VerBrugghen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Tahui An

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andy Beach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassidy Arkin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edgar Burch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Levy

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $144,271
    From this org
    $131,869
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,402
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $599,817
    Expenses
    $772,821
    Contributions
    $435,217
    Grants paid
    $16,750
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $558,488
    Expenses
    $510,457
    Contributions
    $362,718
    Grants paid
    $14,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $561,878
    Expenses
    $699,164
    Contributions
    $416,986
    Grants paid
    $77,060

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
    $447,626
    Expenses
    $1,052,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $547,463

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,525,072
    Expenses
    $707,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,198,741

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

Where these grants went next →

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.