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ARTS COUNCIL WICHITA FALLS AREA INC

EIN 75-2577651 WICHITA FALLS, TX

Largest nonprofits in Texas

Revenue 2024
$1,388,822
Expenses 2024
$1,521,892

Program services were 57.1% 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
1300 LAMAR 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).

Other organizations at this address

6 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of the Arts Council is to nurture and strengthen the artistic, cultural and educational quality of the community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The purpose of the Arts Council is to encourage, advise, promote and coordinate cultural and educational organizations.

  • The Arts Council, Wichita Falls Area, Inc. operates as a nonprofit organization to encourage, advise, promote, and coordinate cultural and educational organizations through the development, presentation, and maintenance of arts, crafts, humanities, and related activities, while broadening the understanding, appreciation, support, and accessibility of these activities. The Organization is supported primarily through donor contributions, memberships, and fund raisers.

    Expenses $868,819 · Grants $72,387 · Revenue $244,568

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.

  • Bart Bybee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Foster Cranz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Simeon Hendrix

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Elaine McKinney

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tony Ramirez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Ferguson

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Cindy Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Robert Parkey

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lin Wang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Darla Diltz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Laura Lindemann

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rick Hatcher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michelle Alexander

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Torin Halsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kristen Shiplet

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $71,688
    From this org
    $71,688
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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, 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
    $1,388,822
    Expenses
    $1,521,892
    Contributions
    $1,091,937
    Grants paid
    $72,387
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,085,653
    Expenses
    $1,224,712
    Contributions
    $622,005
    Grants paid
    $8,717
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,066,731
    Expenses
    $1,126,792
    Contributions
    $489,536
    Grants paid
    $18,387

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
    $1,326,135
    Expenses
    $994,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,624,677

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,181,821
    Expenses
    $856,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,615,379

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $797,956
    Expenses
    $913,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,002,753

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,252
    Expenses
    $959,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,179,550

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $742,195
    Expenses
    $1,038,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,213,217

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,486
    Expenses
    $1,002,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,502,105

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

  • City of Wichita Falls - Park Maintenance

    $72,387

    2024 To help with the purchase of sound garden equipment for a park in Wichita Falls.

  • City of Wichita Falls - Park Maintenance

    $18,387

    2022 To help with the purchase of sound garden equipment for a park in Wichita Falls.

  • City of Wichita Falls - Park Maintenance

    $8,717

    2023 To help with the purchase of sound garden equipment for a park in Wichita Falls.

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