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DESIGNED FOR JOY

EIN 82-2093018 RALEIGH, NC

Revenue 2025
$1,011,422
Expenses 2025
$1,302,021

Program services were 68.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
1700
Street
517 W CABARRUS ST SUITE A

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 · 2025

Mission

Designed For Joy provides women in crisis with stability through immediate employment and support, removing the stigma of vulnerability.

  • Designed For Joy is a transitional work experience for women coming from trafficking, homelessness, time in prison, overcoming addiction or other vulnerable situations. Since 2017, we have employed 179 women and paid over $703,000 in living wages. In 2024, Designed For Joy provided over 13,561 hours of employment. Women in the Designed For Joy program have gone on to full-time, safe, and dignified work, purchased cars, and regained a sense of self worth.

    Expenses $894,225

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Angela Padgett

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Rebecca S Ayers PhD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Karen Woomer

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Stacie Walker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Paul Baccellieri

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Abigail Roush

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Barbara Augustin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Kim Robinson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Brooke Allen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Sara Boshart

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kendra McAdory

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Christina Coffey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kristen Sydow

    Co-Founder and Creative Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Grace Morris

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,011,422
    Expenses
    $1,302,021
    Contributions
    $406,921
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,181,416
    Expenses
    $1,163,016
    Contributions
    $251,627
    Grants paid
    $279
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $846,366
    Expenses
    $783,698
    Contributions
    $545,235
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $782,520
    Expenses
    $667,879
    Contributions
    $427,630
    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
    $650,561
    Expenses
    $541,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,376

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $349,235
    Expenses
    $296,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,204

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $135,603
    Expenses
    $164,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,731

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $125,862
    Expenses
    $117,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,199

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
Cary Heise
Mailing address
2408 Merion Creek DrApex NC 27539

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

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 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.