EIN 26-3383316

Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
33
Year formed
2009
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
An art and technology organization in San Francisco that applies its mission of positive social impact through education and incubation.
Total revenues
$4,270,601
2022
Total expenses
$4,315,724
2022
Total assets
$2,316,973
2022
Num. employees
33
2022

Program areas at Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

PUBLIC EVENTS:We hosted ninety-five (95) total events in 2022. Fifteen (15) of these events were in partnership with local community nonprofit organizations which we supported through sharing resources and staff. Two of our events were self-produced, multi-day festivals: Gray Area Festival, a conference, exhibition, and performance festival surveying culture through the lens of interdisciplinary practice over seven (3) days of programming reaching eight thousand five hundred (8,500) people; and Recombinant Cinechamber, an audio/visual expanded cinema performance with three (3) weeks of programming reaching over two-thousand (2000) people. The Soundwave performance series was dedicated to showcasing emerging local audiovisual artists. We did not produce a dedicated fundraising event in 2022.
EDUCATION:Gray Area's Creative Code Education program services include: Intensives, Workshops, and Scholarship opportunities. Gray Area develops STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) curriculum for artistic development by teaching interdisciplinary skills through the creation of artwork. In 2022, we continued to offer our Creative Code Intensive and launched two new programs including the Open Metaverse Intensive, designed to empower artists to develop in extended reality technologies, and the Responsible Technology Design Intensive, exploring the role of social justice in art.We prioritize enrollment for a diversity of backgrounds within our Education and Cultural Incubator programs. Our biannual creative code Immersive enrolled 65% of students who identify as women, 12% who identify as non-binary and 80% of students who are BIPOC. We support this inclusive enrollment through diversity targeted scholarships and teaching assistantships. In 2022, we granted over 93 (ninety-three) students $61,680 value in scholarships, expanding access to knowledge and growth in creative skill sets.Education: ImmersiveOur twelve (12) week intensive education course taught nineteen (19) Creative Code students over two (2) sessions, and hosted two (2) showcases which shared their work with five-hundred (500) members of the general public.Education: WorkshopsIn 2022, we continued to offer hybrid education courses and served three hundred fifty two (352) students in sixteen (16) interdisciplinary education workshops that ran throughout the year. Ten (10) of these workshops and courses were held online, while workshops and our twelve-week creative code education course was held in-person.
Incubation:Gray Area's Incubator services include Residency, Research Lab, and Sponsorship opportunities. Gray Area collaborates with artists and creative practitioners who critically investigate new ideas, create and adapt technologies through their work, and engage with pressing social and civic issues.Incubation: ResidencyWe had nineteen (19) individual residents throughout the year in our Incubator Residency, which lasts for two sessions of seventy-two (72) weeks each and produced two (2) showcases that each reached three-hundred (300) members of the general public. We had four (4) shared studio members in our private studio spaces. The residencies, showcases, and events for the Residency adapted to hybrid programs in-person and online to offer access to a wider audience.Incubation: Fiscal SponsorshipsWe continued to manage six (6) fiscally sponsored projects: Art Hack Day, a hackathon project for media artists; Living Room Light Exchange, a discussion and presentation series for emerging artists; and the Zachary Watson Memorial Fund, a scholarship program, AMPL Labs, a project raising awareness of the cultural effect of colonialism and impact of deep-fake forgeries; Recombinant Media Labs, a creative producer of immersive audio/visual experiences; and School for Poetic Computation, an education program exploring the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory.In 2022, Gray Area also became fiscal sponsors for Codame, a network of artists and technologists, and CoPlace, a community building project focused on economic growth.

Grants made by Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

GranteeAmount
Human Rights Foundation (HRF)$10,020

Who funds Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
William and Flora Hewlett FoundationFor the 2022 50 Arts Commissions for Media Arts$150,000
The Conrad Prebys FoundationGeneral Support$50,000
ImpactAssetsGeneral Support$30,000
...and 4 more grants received

Personnel at Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

NameTitleCompensation
Barry ThrewExecutive Director$100,000
Joy DingCommunications Director
Mark HellarInterim Education Director
Steven PiaseckiVenue Operations Manager
Wade WallersteinAssociate Curator and Community Manager
...and 9 more key personnel

Financials for Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,065,145
Program services$2,976,902
Investment income and dividends$2,844
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$-7,726
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$233,436
Total revenues$4,270,601

Form 990s for Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-15990View PDF
2021-122022-11-15990View PDF
2020-122021-11-12990View PDF
2019-122021-03-02990View PDF
2018-122020-01-23990View PDF
...and 11 more Form 990s

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Data update history
January 22, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
January 2, 2024
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
December 26, 2023
Received grants
Identified 9 new grant, including a grant for $150,000 from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
July 16, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
July 5, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsCharities
Issues
EducationArts, cultural, and humanities
Characteristics
State / local levelReceives government fundingProvides scholarshipsTax deductible donationsFiscal sponsor
General information
Address
2665 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Metro area
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA
County
San Francisco County, CA
Website URL
grayarea.org/about/staff-board/ 
Phone
(415) 843-1423
IRS details
EIN
26-3383316
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2009
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
A25: Arts Education, Schools of Art
NAICS code, primary
7113: Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
Parent/child status
Independent
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