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BLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC

EIN 75-3129761 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2025
$7,248,433
Expenses 2025
$5,020,419

Program services were 67.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6B
Classification
1000
Street
320 S BROAD ST STE 131

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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DENISE C BEEK

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • SEKOU CAMPBELL

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA BRANSON GILL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAYYIB SMITH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUNANDA GHOSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TED PASSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CEO

    Total calculated
    $243,231
    From this org
    $228,283
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,948
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,283
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,440
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,508
    Filer's total
    $243,231

  • IMRAN SIDDIQUEE

    CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $164,256
    From this org
    $152,054
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,202
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,054
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,294
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,908
    Filer's total
    $164,256

  • TERRI HALL- JACKSON

    ENGAGEMENT & PARTNERSHIP DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $138,422
    From this org
    $101,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,852
    Hours/week
    40

  • LEO BROOKS

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $114,577
    From this org
    $101,946
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,631
    Hours/week
    40

  • CATHERINE LEE

    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $160,812
    From this org
    $148,888
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,924
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,888
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,240
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,684
    Filer's total
    $160,812

  • AUTUMN VALDEZ

    BUSINESS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,362
    From this org
    $103,985
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,377
    Hours/week
    40

  • NEHAD KHADER

    FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $114,114
    From this org
    $102,766
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,348
    Hours/week
    40

  • HEIDI SAMAN

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $111,323
    From this org
    $109,641
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,682
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,248,433
    Expenses
    $5,020,419
    Contributions
    $6,850,824
    Grants paid
    $363,106
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,991,696
    Expenses
    $5,786,380
    Contributions
    $4,807,606
    Grants paid
    $219,995
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,152,810
    Expenses
    $3,796,085
    Contributions
    $4,993,309
    Grants paid
    $48,439

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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.