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DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS

EIN 51-0138181 DES MOINES, IA

Revenue 2024
$26,167,956
Expenses 2024
$28,216,361

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S200
Classification
2000
Street
221 WALNUT 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).

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.

  • ESPNOLA CARTMILL

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARDIS KELLEY

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL HLIVKO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LANAE CERYANEC

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VANESSA HOWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK FREEMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA GOBBER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINE HER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT MCCOY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS MENKEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SONIA PARRAS KONRAD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMOTHY PERKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB RITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA WESTERGAARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICH WILLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIBETH MULREADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELINDA RUPERTO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHRYN KUNERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STACY WANDERSCHEID

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH MANDELBAUM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN PATRICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF CHELESVIG

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $695,197
    From this org
    $670,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,802
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $430,828
    Bonus
    $236,962
    Other
    $2,605
    Deferred
    $11,528
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,274
    Filer's total
    $695,197

  • HEIDI WATKINS

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $226,912
    From this org
    $215,107
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,805
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,297
    Bonus
    $26,707
    Other
    $2,103
    Deferred
    $10,649
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,157
    Filer's total
    $226,913

  • LAURA SWEET

    VICE PRESIDENT/COO

    Total calculated
    $252,262
    From this org
    $230,128
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,134
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,606
    Bonus
    $30,109
    Other
    $2,413
    Deferred
    $10,222
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,913
    Filer's total
    $252,263

  • BARBARA PREUSS

    DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $197,313
    From this org
    $176,026
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,287
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,297
    Bonus
    $24,061
    Other
    $2,668
    Deferred
    $8,703
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,584
    Filer's total
    $197,313

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $26,167,956
    Expenses
    $28,216,361
    Contributions
    $3,936,472
    Grants paid
    $7,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,289,196
    Expenses
    $24,856,824
    Contributions
    $3,319,972
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $28,296,857
    Expenses
    $28,040,474
    Contributions
    $3,502,456
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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.

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 10 September 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.