Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Nov 1999.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
62 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
Something off? Claim to add context
Who runs it and what they're paid
25 people listed on the 990; $175K paid to officers and key staff.
Colleen Houston’s $175K as Ce0 & Artistic Director is at the 76th percentile of top reported officer pay among 3924 $1–10M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 1 named individual · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colleen Houston | $174,957 | $166,858 | $142,260 | $144,380 | $123,027 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Art Opportunities INC executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Transforms communities by employing youth in public art projects mentored by professional artists.
Questions for Art Opportunities INC
Your first name shows with your question. Art Opportunities INC answers here, for everyone.
Apprenticeship Program
ArtWorks Apprentices are teen and young adult seasonal employees, who work side-by-side and learn from professional Artists and peers while creating public art and community impact projects. This program is for artists ages 14 - 21.
Creative Services Studio Program
The Creative Services Studio Program provides teen and young adults with consistent employment for an entire year. ArtWorks Studio programs offer an unmatched experience for emerging artists to gain a unique skill set in artistic production, administration, and project management related to the studio concentration.
Gallery Fellowship Program
The Gallery Fellowship Program is a transformative, free educational experience for aspiring young artists to learn methods for making, showing, and selling their artwork from Artists-in-Residence. Participants display their work in public exhibitions, with 90% of sales going directly to the artists themselves.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2024 990, line by line.
Download 990
| Line | Start FY24 | End FY24 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $2.2M | $1.7M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $3.3M | $3.8M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $381K | $1.5M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $7.3M | $8.9M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $2.3M | $2.0M |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $4.9M | $6.9M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic organizationsLn 1 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Grants to domestic individualsLn 2 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Grants and assistance to foreign recipientsLn 3 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Benefits paid to or for membersLn 4 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $175K | $175K | ||
| Pay of disqualified personsLn 6 | $0 | |||
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $1.8M | $1.2M | $136K | $475K |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $47K | $21K | $13K | $13K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $70K | $36K | $7K | $27K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $149K | $102K | $11K | $36K |
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $289K | $115K | $85K | $89K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $55K | $31K | $10K | $14K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $108K | $82K | $7K | $18K |
| TravelLn 17 | $52K | $19K | $24K | $9K |
| InterestLn 20 | $80K | $61K | $5K | $13K |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $22K | $15K | $2K | $6K |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $60K | $40K | $13K | $8K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $791K | $416K | $34K | $341K |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $3.7M | $2.3M | $346K | $1.0M |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Nov 14, 2025 | $5.6M | $3.7M | $2.0M | $6.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2024 | $5.7M | $3.7M | $2.0M | $4.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Nov 9, 2023 | $3.9M | $2.6M | $1.2M | $2.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Oct 13, 2022 | $2.6M | $2.2M | $366K | $1.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Oct 5, 2021 | $2.0M | $1.8M | $197K | $1.2M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2024 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $5,641,121 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 25 of 25 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $5,641,121 across 14 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $3,658,780 across 18 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $8,926,265 assets, 18 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $6,919,709 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
Similar organizations you could support · Compare with another nonprofit
Names, privacy, and removal requests More
The names, titles, and compensation shown on this page are reproduced from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public records.
Philanthropy.org does not alter the content of those filings. All information appears exactly as reported by the filing organization for the tax year shown.
We publish only information contained in the public IRS filing — and less than the filing contains. Our profile pages do not display street addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or other personal contact information, even where the filing includes them.
Many people share the same name. A name shown on this page reflects only what one organization reported in one IRS filing for one tax year. It should not be interpreted as identifying any other individual with the same or a similar name.
If you are no longer affiliated with the organization, your name will generally stop appearing in future IRS filings once the organization no longer reports you. Pages for tax years in which you were reported remain published because those filings remain part of the public record.
Philanthropy.org does not alter or remove IRS filing records. Removing a page from this website would not remove the underlying IRS filing, which remains publicly available from the IRS and other publishers of the same information.
If you believe the IRS filing itself is inaccurate, corrections must be made by the filing organization or the IRS directly.