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MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC

EIN 31-1614732 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2025
$1,433,677
Expenses 2025
$1,762,107

Program services were 58.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
1200
Street
149 W 126TH ST

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

CREATED TO HELP ESTABLISH HARLEM AS A ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL CENTER PIECE OF THE WORLD. THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO PRESENT, PRESERVE AND PROMOTE GOSPEL, JAZZ AND THE R&B ARTS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  • THROUGH WORKSHOPS, MUSIC LESSONS, CONCESSIONS AND MERCHANDISE PROMOTION TO PRESENT AND PROMOTE GOSPEL, JAZZ AND R&B ARTS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. TO IDENTIFY AND TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF PERFORMERS IN THE AREA OF THEATRICAL ARTS.

    Expenses $1,022,911

  • PRODUCTION OF ORIGINAL AND REVIVAL THEATER AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES OF VARIOUS HISTORICAL AND RELEVANT SHOWS, WHICH TOURS NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY IN ORDER TO RE-ESTABLISH HARLEM AS A WORLD ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL CENTER.

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.

  • KNOELLE WYDRO

    PROGRAM DIRE

    Total calculated
    $117,666
    From this org
    $117,666
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • VY HIGGINSEN

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $99,008
    From this org
    $99,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JEFFREY ANDERSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED BLUMENFELD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA CISCO

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOYCE DAVIS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KERY DAVIS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMANTHA DAVIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBIN HOMMEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIGEL PIERCE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID RIMMER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RITA RODIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK JC SHAW

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,433,677
    Expenses
    $1,762,107
    Contributions
    $931,061
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,658,505
    Expenses
    $1,606,322
    Contributions
    $1,153,633
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,645,506
    Expenses
    $1,766,232
    Contributions
    $870,707
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,591,894
    Expenses
    $1,003,098
    Contributions
    $1,267,834
    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
    $2,027,362
    Expenses
    $826,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,900,832

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $554,865
    Expenses
    $556,415
    Assets (EOY)
    $708,892

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $762,389
    Expenses
    $711,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $618,998

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $696,889
    Expenses
    $772,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $569,304

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $599,182
    Expenses
    $775,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $751,759

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $599,182
    Expenses
    $775,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $751,759

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,004,009
    Expenses
    $821,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $938,552

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,376,740
    Expenses
    $875,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $752,919

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $616,132
    Expenses
    $887,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,845

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,117,964
    Expenses
    $846,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $514,989

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.

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.