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THE BEAUTIFUL PROJECT INC

EIN 45-4724894 DURHAM, NC

Revenue 2023
$395,843
Expenses 2023
$514,805

Program services were 49.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
201 W MAIN ST STE 100 PMB B012

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 · 2023

Mission

The Beautiful Project is a community-based arts organization in Durham North Carolina that uses storytelling and visual arts to advance the healing and representational justice of Black girls, gender-expansive youth, and women.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Beautiful Project is a collective of image makers that use photograpy, writing, and care to create spaces for Black women and girls to confromt the mass misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and misuse of their likeness in the media and in the world at large. Through tools of cultural activism, TBP collectively build and utilize voice and power to advance the wellness and representational justice of Black women and girls.

  • Arts & Activism Youth Apprenticeship. The Arts and Activism Youth Apprenticeship is focused on exploring cultural activism. This includes exploring Black feminist movements, reading, watching, and discussing Black Feminist text and art, visiting TBP's most recent exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and other experiments and activities. The apprentices learn to use words and images as tools for understanding and confronting injuries related to gender, race, and identity in their community

    Expenses $76,076

  • Artist in Residence. The TBP Teaching Artise Residency is a 6-9 month artist-in-residence fellowship that provides an opportunity for Black women and non binary practicing artist to work on a specific project in partnership with TBP Selected artist may work in photography, file, poetry, writing, or other visual art media. In addition to teaching young artist in TBP's youth program pipeline, visiting artist in TBP's youth program pipeline, visiting artist are required to lead their own special project that engages the organziation' mission of advancing the representational and healing justice of Black girls, gender-expansive youth, and women.

    Expenses $59,478

  • Ekphrais in Black (EIB). EIB is a hybrid artform plus polictial education incubator designed to develop and deepen attendees' poetry, photography skills, and political consciousness.

    Expenses $63,769

  • Grantmakers for Girls of Color and Encounter the Arts Community Programs.

    Expenses $53,706

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alexandria Zagbayou

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Dosali Reed-Bandeli

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Marcus Littles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $395,843
    Expenses
    $514,805
    Contributions
    $395,843
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $227,717
    Expenses
    $327,049
    Contributions
    $227,717
    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
    $594,318
    Expenses
    $274,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $406,090

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $341,311
    Expenses
    $282,136
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,661

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $82,427
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.