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PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

EIN 47-1305368 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2024
$265,853
Expenses 2024
$276,796

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
2300
Street
1662 HOFFNER 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 · 2024

Mission

PAR-Projects' mission is to empower diverse communities of people who believe in the arts. As educators, we provide classes and workshops related to creative career paths. As working artists, we enjoy hosting thought-provoking exhibitions and collaborations with regional artists focused on making creatively compelling statements.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Professional Artistic Research (PAR-) Projects' mission is to empower diverse communities of people who believe in the arts. As educators, we provide workshops & classes related to career development & skills training. As artists, we enjoy hosting thought provoking exhibits & collaborations.

  • Arts and Exhibition Facilities: We create space for artists to collaborate and engage with community, while expanding their social and professional networks. This is accomplished via the creation of pop-up (temporary) galleries and the ongoing renovation & expansion of our creative campus, locate in Northside, Cincinnati. Within these spaces we exhibit artwork & creative statements, oftentimes absorbing the cost of travel, shipping, and installation to alleviate burdens often faced by mid-career artists.

    Expenses $157,857 · Revenue $232,128

  • Collaborations & Community Engagement Programming: We create opportunities for collaborative projects to help support fellow nonprofits, working artists, and partnering businesses looking to give back to the community. These often present themselves as fine art exhibitions, pop-up (temporary) experiences, art markets, and shared experiences & festivals.

    Expenses $42,292 · Revenue $33,588

  • Visiting Artist and Education Program: We create educational opportunities that benefit our communities, as well as artists of the region. As we are still adjusting from the COVID 19 lockdown, our primary expenses of this program were related to planning and equipment purchases, as we look to begin our full relaunch during the 2025/2026 school year.

    Expenses $48,323 · Revenue $35,323

  • As part of our service and support of working artists, we serve as the fiscal agent for like-minded organizations who provide direct services that benefit the community at large. This helps us strengthen our support for community education, outreach, and workforce development.

    Expenses $23,171 · Revenue $26,494

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.

  • Jonathan Sears

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $42,000
    From this org
    $42,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gabrielle Roach

    Arts & Programming Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $38,279
    From this org
    $38,279
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Alisha Budkie

    Campaign & Development Manager

    Total calculated
    $13,350
    From this org
    $13,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Mya Rhea

    Design Intern

    Total calculated
    $7,986
    From this org
    $7,986
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Herbert Robinson

    President of the board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rachel Schwartzman Murphy

    Vice President of the board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Philip Stowers

    Secretary of the board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Guthrie

    Treasurer of the board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vanessa Riley Thurman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Keifling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rick Wolf

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $265,853
    Expenses
    $276,796
    Contributions
    $250,050
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $381,039
    Expenses
    $336,776
    Contributions
    $345,660
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $230,109
    Expenses
    $267,054
    Contributions
    $206,678
    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
    $221,717
    Expenses
    $204,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,793,251

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,673
    Expenses
    $68,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,580

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Jonathan Sears
Mailing address
1662 Hoffner StreetCincinnati OH 45223
Website
http://www.parprojects.com

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

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