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WORDPLAY CINCY

EIN 45-3969713 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2024
$282,369
Expenses 2024
$284,740

Program services were 44.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B60
Classification
1000
Street
1556 CHASE 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

WordPlay Cincy sparks storytelling through creative expression and arts in healing with Cincinnatis young people to cultivate belonging, celebrate our strengths, and empower the community in its pursuit of social justice.

  • Provides creative literacy opportunities to young people across Cincinnati through community- and school-based programs.

    Expenses $125,234 · Grants $18,324 · Revenue $282,369

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.

  • Wally Hart

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $16,615
    From this org
    $16,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $16,615
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $16,615

  • Desirae Hosley

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $7,115
    From this org
    $7,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Steve Yandell

    Board Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

  • Timm West

    Board Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Manuel Iris

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Strunk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Moorman

    Board Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chim Okoroji

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Spring Starr Pillow

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brice Mickey

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Qeiara Fuller

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Espy

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kristen Copeland

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $282,369
    Expenses
    $284,740
    Contributions
    $269,866
    Grants paid
    $18,324
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $271,462
    Expenses
    $296,915
    Contributions
    $177,077
    Grants paid
    $27,749
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $362,673
    Expenses
    $569,522
    Contributions
    $299,364
    Grants paid
    $41,731

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $710,678
    Expenses
    $555,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,809,166

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $600,156
    Expenses
    $375,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,583,063

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $629,774
    Expenses
    $376,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,612,680

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $531,651
    Expenses
    $590,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $961,832

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $930,706
    Expenses
    $590,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,360,887

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,047,162
    Expenses
    $513,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $749,888

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $323,996
    Expenses
    $330,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,188

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $424,358
    Expenses
    $248,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,317

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012

Tax period
1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
Asante Sparks
Mailing address
4041 Hamilton AveCincinnati OH 45223
Website
www.wordplaycincy.org
Doing business as
Wordplay Cincy

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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.