- Revenue 2023
- $1,889,208
- Expenses 2023
- $1,206,573
Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A26Z
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 1020 18TH 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).
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
THE MISSION OF THE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN IS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND PROMOTE ARTS ACCESS, ADVOCACY, AND EDUCATION FOR ALL KERN COUNTY RESIDENTS AND VISTORS. WE ARE A 501(C)(3) NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION AND ARE THE DESIGNATED LOCAL ARTS AGENCY FOR KERN COUNTY, SERVING OUR MISSION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL, THE COUNTY OF KERN, AND LOCAL AGENCIES.
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ARTS EDUCATION - WE PROVIDE ART ASSISTED EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE USING YOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNING CURRICULUM AND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE; ARTS OUTREACH - WE FURTHER OUR MISSION FULFILLING ARTS NEEDS IN KERN COUNTY THROUGH MANY OUTREACH PROGAMS AND SUPPORT OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY.
Expenses $892,255
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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JEANETTE RICHARDSON
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $105,000
- From this org
- $105,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
ANTHONY GROSS
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CANDACE FREEMAN
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHELA BREHMER
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MATTHEW NOCITA
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALISYN PALLA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CASSANDRA SANCHEZ
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CATHERINE CHOO
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRYSTINE WHARTON-ZENT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FAHRA DAREDIA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JASMINE LOBASSO
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN RAND
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LAWTON DARREN POWERS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REEMA HAMMAD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TOM COX
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TONY MARTINEZ
BOARD MEMBER
- 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
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,889,208
- Expenses
- $1,206,573
- Contributions
- $1,881,498
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $628,873
- Expenses
- $603,312
- Contributions
- $610,297
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $485,331
- Expenses
- $479,252
- Assets (EOY)
- $351,178
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $611,451
- Expenses
- $437,416
- Assets (EOY)
- $332,100
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $624,246
- Expenses
- $510,858
- Assets (EOY)
- $153,992
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $323,967
- Expenses
- $444,784
- Assets (EOY)
- $42,247
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $437,443
- Expenses
- $415,997
- Assets (EOY)
- $161,421
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $264,652
- Expenses
- $237,124
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,975
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $325,922
- Expenses
- $311,310
- Assets (EOY)
- $112,447
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $266,775
- Expenses
- $193,773
- Assets (EOY)
- $98,010
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $282,678
- Assets (EOY)
- -$6,965
-
2009 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,006,999
- Assets (EOY)
- $98,143
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
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
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$168,300
2023 CAC
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.