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ACADEMY FOR THE INTEGRATED ARTS

EIN 27-0781816 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$5,638,588
Expenses 2024
$5,531,210

Program services were 72.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
1000
Street
7910 TROOST AVE

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

THE ACADEMY IS A FREE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL SERVING AT-RISK STUDENTS. MISSION IS TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR AN ADMISSIONS-BASED SECONDARY SCHOOL. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE AND ACTIVELY EXPRESS A DEEPER MEANING OF SUBJECT MATTER CONTENT THROUGH USING VISUAL ARTS AS WELL AS MUSIC, DANCE AND DRAMATIZATION.LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS ENLIVENS INSTRUCTION, INCREASES STUDENT INVOLVEMENT AND STRENGTHENS BOTH MEMORY AND MEANING. STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE IN THEIR ABILITY TO DESIGN, CONNECT, APPLY CONCEPTS, ANALYZE, CREATE AND CRITQUE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ACADEMY FOR THE INTEGRATED ARTS' MISSION IS TO USE ARTS TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR AN ADMISSIONS-BASED COLLEGE PREPARATORY SECONDARY SCHOOL. THE ARTS WILL SERVE AS A CATALYST FOR LEARNING, ACHIEVEMENT, CURIOSITY AND SELF-ESTEEM.

  • INITIATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES FOR PRE-KINGERGARTEN THROUGH SIXTH GRADE SERVING 235 ENROLLED STUDENTS.

    Expenses $4,031,066 · Revenue $8,723

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.

  • BRAD EPSTEN

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CARA NEWELL

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • EMILY BROWN

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LYNNE BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETER BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICK LENOIR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER WADDELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDY FROMM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRICIA DEGRAFF

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $185,230
    From this org
    $144,782
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,448
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,782
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,534
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,914
    Filer's total
    $185,230

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
    $5,638,588
    Expenses
    $5,531,210
    Contributions
    $5,539,242
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,891,283
    Expenses
    $5,196,586
    Contributions
    $5,846,676
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,380,444
    Expenses
    $4,828,029
    Contributions
    $5,344,777
    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
    $4,232,868
    Expenses
    $4,236,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,134,842

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,681,271
    Expenses
    $3,450,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,150,135

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,642,902
    Expenses
    $3,254,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $901,487

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,072,963
    Expenses
    $2,780,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $512,619

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,589,822
    Expenses
    $2,686,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,942

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,172,167
    Expenses
    $2,209,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,229

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,519,836
    Expenses
    $1,524,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,056

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,144,224
    Expenses
    $1,126,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $363,710

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,251,571
    Expenses
    $1,223,220
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,425

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

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

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