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ART AS MENTORSHIP INC

EIN 82-0925535 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$525,145
Expenses 2024
$500,738

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
3236 MORRELL AVE

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

Art as Mentorship's mission is to empower young people to write their own success stories. Our programs help underserved immigrant, Latinx and low-income young artists create their own vision for a successful life through access to world-class mentorship, real-world skill development, and mental health support. We believe the future will be made brighter by enabling the healing qualities of music to unite us.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Empowering young people, through music, to write their own success stories

  • Art as mentorship empowers young people, through music to write their own success stories Art as Mentorship is a Kansas City-based non-profit organization that takes an innovative approach to fully grasp young students' full potential through music programs. We envision an inclusive community where under-represented artists are emboldened to raise their voices through music. We believe the future will be made brighter by enabling the healing qualities of music to unite us and serve as a vehicle for social change. Our team is made up of musicians, creatives and industry professionals who strive to lift the voices of our students. We provide our students with consistent support to propel themselves through self-discovery, emotional intelligence and the freedom of creativity. In our programs, we give students the chance to learn and grow from music industry mentors, many of whom are world-class, GRAMMY Award-winning professionals. We work to transform young artists through access to world-class mentorship, real-world skill development and mental health support. We give students access to resources and equipment they wouldn't have otherwise to lift their voices and write their own stories. Programs include; Rebel Song Academy - The Rebel Song Academy is at the heart of our programming. Our flagship 12-week music camp takes an innovative approach to exploring young artists' full potential through creativity, mentorship opportunities, and fostering their inherent sense of exploration and achievement. Students work directly with industry-professional mentors to write, record, publish, and perform an original song. RSA Live! In 2020, we launched RSA Live!, the supplemental sister program of our Rebel Song Academy. Operating in tandem with RSA, we give students/alumni real world opportunities to perform their music and events including Crossroads Music Fest, Plaza Art Fair, and many more! We also connect students virtually with nationally-renown mentors to work directly with young artists of all backgrounds, empowering them, through music, to write their own success stories. Our industry-professional mentors work directly with students and answer questions in our virtual chat room. Camp - The Rebel Song Academy's Ignition Camp is our week-long songwriting bootcamp to find and ignite the creative spark within students! This camp appeals to a wide range of young artists - from seasoned musicians looking to enhance their songwriting skills, to those that have never picked up an instrument but love music. Students band together to create original songs and perform them at our Youth Summer Concert AMERI'KANA - AMERI'KANA is a collaborative project between Art as Mentorship and Making Movies that explores America's music- both past and present. This event highlights the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and people of color and how interwoven these individuals are in all of America's stories through this musical festival in Kansas City. AMERI'KANA gives our students resources to learn about the origins of American music as well as performance opportunities at Celebrate AMERI'KANA Music and Arts Festival. In 2024, highlights included over 6,678 individuals served and 5,014 hours of mentorship were provided to young people thought the Kanas City Metro. Over 3,000 attended the AMERI'KANA Music & Arts Festival, part of our expansive AMERI'KANA Project, represented Kansas City in the 2024 One Nation/One Project (ONOP) Arts for EveryBody nationwide arts and wellness initiative, one of only 18 cities selected nationwide. Over 3,000 area students participated in a RSA/AMERI'KANA Assembly. 23 RSA students performed at the festival. Art as Mentorship conducted 10 Rebel Song Academy programs throughout the region and 218 young artists participated in an in-person Rebel Song Academy or Ignition Camp program. Rebel Song Academy students and alumni participated in 12 live performances. 28 original songs were recorded in the Art as Mentorship LAB.

    Expenses $378,839 · Revenue $58,085

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.

  • Enrique Chi

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $73,750
    From this org
    $73,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Celia Ruiz

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Gordon Jr

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Adam Fichman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tamba Hall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gabriela Flores

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Isabella Flannery-White

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $525,145
    Expenses
    $500,738
    Contributions
    $463,356
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $409,959
    Expenses
    $411,614
    Contributions
    $398,824
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $357,633
    Expenses
    $352,763
    Contributions
    $342,608
    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
    $277,477
    Expenses
    $261,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,162

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,349
    Expenses
    $106,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,729

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $81,821
    Expenses
    $92,190
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,709

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $72,901
    Expenses
    $57,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,078

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

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