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DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS

EIN 47-2681547 PROVIDENCE, RI

Revenue 2024
$485,962
Expenses 2024
$624,348

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A40
Classification
1200
Street
14 OLNEYVILLE SQ

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

TO ENHANCE THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE OLNEYVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD OF PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND BY PRODUCING PUBLIC ARTS EXHIBITIONS FACILITATING ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ARTISTS EDUCATORS AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL EVENTS FOCUSED ON STREET-SIDE PUBLIC DISPLAYS AS WELL AS LECTURES ARTIST TALKS AND WORKSHOPS. TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FEMALE-IDENTIFIED ARTISTS AND OTHER PEOPLE HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED WITHIN THE ARTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To enhance the cultural life of the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence Rhode Island.

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS RUNS AN ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT 14 OLNEYVILLE SQUARE IN PROVIDENCE. DIRT PALACE CLASSIC RESIDENCIES OFFER ARTISTS AFFORDABLE LIVE WORK STUDIO SPACE WITH ACCESS TO OUR MEDIA BASED FACILITIES - PRINTSHOP WOOD SHOP SCULPTURE STUDIO MUSIC PERFORMANCE PRACTICE SPACE. RESIDENT ARTISTS PAY RENTS AND PERFORM ABOUT 20 HOURS PER MONTH IN STUDIO MANAGEMENT DUTIES IN EXCHANGE FOR A MINIMUM 1 YEAR ARTIST RESIDENCY. 5 ARTISTS PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM IN 2024.

    Expenses $72,085 · Revenue $30,967

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS FACILITATES ITS WEDDING CAKE HOUSE RESIDENCIES PROGRAM AT 514 BROADWAY. THIS PROGRAM OFFERS PROJECT BASED RESIDENCIES WITH A FOCUS ON MIDCAREER ARTISTS. RESIDENCIES GIVE ARTISTS THE SPACE AND TIME TO WORK ON PROJECTS. EACH RESIDENCY HAS A PUBLIC COMPONENT. THERE ARE NO FEES FOR ARTISTS TO ATTEND AND SOME MEALS ARE COVERED. IN 2024 ONE OF THESE RESIDENCIES WAS FOCUSED ON ARTISTS WHO ARE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN AND ONE RESIDENCY WAS FOCUSED ON ARTISTS WHO ARE CAREGIVERS. THIS PROGRAM HOSTED 43 ARTISTS AND 6 YOUTH AND THE PUBLIC COMPONENTS SHOWCASED THEIR WORK TO 200 AUDIENCE MEMBERS.

    Expenses $80,704

  • IN 2020 DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS PARTNERED WITH PROVIDENCE COLLEGE GALLERIES TO LAUNCH THE INTERLACE GRANT FUND A RE-GRANTING PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION. IN 2024 INTERLACE AWARDED $10,550 IN EMERGENCY RELIEF GRANTS TO 42 PROVIDENCE AREA ARTISTS. INTERLACE ALSO CONTINUED ITS PROJECT GRANT FUND WHICH AWARDED 9 $6000 ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS FOR A TOTAL OF $54,000.

    Expenses $302,175 · Grants $239,628

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS FACILITATES EXHIBITIONS AT THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE WCH LOCATED AT 514 BROADWAY WHICH ARE ACCESSIBLE VIA PUBLIC EVENTS AND TOURS AS WELL AS PUBLIC ARTWORKS ON THE GROUNDS WHICH ARE VIEWABLE 24 HOURS A DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. IN 2021 WE LAUNCHED AN EXHIBITION IN 514 BROADWAY WITH 3 ARTISTS WHO HAD PHOTOGRAPHED THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE BEFORE OUR RENOVATION. THIS EXHIBITION CONTINUED TO BE ON VIEW IN 2024. PUBLIC SCULPTURES INSTALLED BETWEEN 2019 - 2023 CONTINUED TO BE VIEWABLE FROM THE GROUNDS AND STREET. 8 POETS WERE FEATURED ON OUR WORD SHELTER SIGN OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR. THIS SIGN SHOWCASES THE POETRY OF A DIFFERENT POET EVERY 6 WEEKS ON THE GROUNDS OF 514 BROADWAY FACING THE BUS STOP.

    Expenses $14,453 · Revenue $19,868

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS FACILITATES THE STOREFRONT WINDOW GALLERY LOCATED AT 14 OLNEYVILLE SQUARE PROVIDENCE. THE STOREFRONT WINDOW GALLERY IS A PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION SPACE WITH A 6 WEEK ROTATION OF ARTIST INSTALLATIONS. 8 ARTISTS EXHIBITED IN THE GALLERY IN 2024. THE EXHIBITION IS VISIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN OLNEYVILLE SQUARE 24 HOURS A DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. IN CONJUNCTION WITH EACH ART INSTALLATION WE PRODUCED AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST FOR OUR BLOG.

    Expenses $8,279

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC OPERATED ITS WEDDING CAKE HOUSE BNB AUDIENCE PROGRAM WHICH ALLOWS TRAVELERS TO CONNECT WITH ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS THROUGH SHORT TERM RENTALS AT 514 BROADWAY.

    Expenses $109,762 · Revenue $178,710

  • DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS FACILITATES THE PRINT SHOP AT 14 OLNEYVILLE SQUARE. THE PRINT SHOP INCLUDES SCREEN PRINT AND LETTERPRESS FACILITIES. THE SHOP IS RUN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DIRT PALACE COLLABORATIVE. MEMBERS OF THE COLLABORATIVE HAVE FREE ACCESS TO THE SHOP. OUTSIDE ARTISTS PAY A FEE TO USE THE PRINT SHOP.

    Expenses $164 · Revenue $129

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.

  • Alexandria Marro

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $49,658
    From this org
    $44,959
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,699
    Hours/week
    40

  • Pippi Zornoza

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $49,658
    From this org
    $44,959
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,699
    Hours/week
    40

  • Becci Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cody Ross

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anabel Vazquez

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shauna Duffy

    Treasurer Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Angela DiVeglia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Fortunato

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lois Harada

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bonnie Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sussy Santana

    Director

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $485,962
    Expenses
    $624,348
    Contributions
    $237,712
    Grants paid
    $239,628
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $860,724
    Expenses
    $542,472
    Contributions
    $641,214
    Grants paid
    $140,786
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $416,080
    Expenses
    $338,008
    Contributions
    $262,335
    Grants paid
    $65,336

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
    $458,171
    Expenses
    $253,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,547,444

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $188,183
    Expenses
    $230,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,341,803

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $457,047
    Expenses
    $65,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,459,305

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $272,029
    Expenses
    $18,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,113

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $483,418
    Expenses
    $43,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $741,968

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $26,550
    Expenses
    $12,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,195

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Alexandra Marro
Mailing address
14 OLNEYVILLE SQUAREProvidence RI 02909

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.