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EIN 45-2874353 SAINT LOUIS, MO

Revenue 2024
$477,473
Expenses 2024
$412,412

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
7190 MANCHESTER 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

THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF ARTIST FIRST IS TO FOSTER GROWTH THROUGH CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DIABILITIES, VETERANS, YOUTH, AND ELDERS WITH MEMORY LOSS.

  • LIFEWORKSTHE TAILORED PROGRAM FOR PROFESSIONALLY MINDED ARTISTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES TO OBTAIN THEIR GREATEST POTENTIAL AND GROWTH IN EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL DOMAINS THROUGH THE ARTS IS SUPPORTED BY THE ST LOUIS OFFICE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY RESOURCES

    Expenses $103,246

  • OTHER PROGRAMS ARTISTS FIRST PROGRAMS INCREASES ACCESS TO MEANINGFUL ARTS EXPERIENCES FOR MARGINALIZED INDIVIDUALS, FOSTERS CONNECTIONS, AS WELL AS STRENTHENS THE LARGER COMMUNITY SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY

    Expenses $228,704

  • VETERANS98 OF PARTICIPATING VETERANS MAINTAINED SOBRIETY, 100 MAINTAINED EMOTIONAL WELL BEING THROUGH THE PROGRAM WHICH BUILDS BETTER LIVES FOR TRANSITIONING VETERANS AS THEY REINTEGRATE INTO CIVILIAN LIFE BY SUPPORTING REHABILITATION AND REVOVERY AND BY FACILITATING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING USING CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION.

    Expenses $32,830

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.

  • ANNE HOLLIN

    CO PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JIMAURIA EVANS

    CO PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • NANCY NEWMAN RICE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • RENE ZAR

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DOUGLAS HALL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DR CHRISTINA GURNETT MD PHD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARK TURNBULL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MANISHA SHEODE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHELIA SUDERWALL

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

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
    $477,473
    Expenses
    $412,412
    Contributions
    $391,300
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $440,326
    Expenses
    $371,963
    Contributions
    $373,160
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $420,832
    Expenses
    $266,522
    Contributions
    $345,173
    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
    $437,257
    Expenses
    $259,781
    Assets (EOY)
    $244,890

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $190,099
    Expenses
    $189,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,856

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $171,459
    Expenses
    $187,472
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,558

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $137,153
    Expenses
    $170,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,320

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,454
    Expenses
    $173,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,654

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,987
    Expenses
    $146,138
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,854

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $160,897
    Expenses
    $140,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,604

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,331
    Expenses
    $107,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,137

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014
Principal officer
Debora Davidson
Mailing address
7190 Manchester RoadMaplewood MO 63143
Website
www.turnercenterforthearts.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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