Artitude Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813396249
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2142637619
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,532
- Expenses
- $64,565
- Assets
- $254,417
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jerome Larez (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Jerome Larez (Board President)
- Dr Jara Carrington (Board Member)
- Jayla Howard (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arttitude is an LGBTQ arts organization dedicated to supporting diverse LGBTQ+ and allied artists by cultivating opportunities for artists to share their work and their stories.
What it reported doing in 2025
May 30 - June 7, 2024 - MaricónX exhibition, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. June 13, 2024 - OutLoud, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. June 9, 2024 - Sponsored Colorwaave event, Dallas, TX. July 18, 2024 - Voices of Change featuring Harryette Ehrhardt, Dallas, TX. Nov 1 - 23, 2024 - Sponsored Lost Faces: Trans Day of Remembrance Exhibition, Dallas, TX. MaricónX Exhibition (May 30-June 7, 2024) Held at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center in Dallas, TX, this exhibition uplifted the voices of LGBTQ+ Latinx artists through visual storytelling and cultural expression. The exhibition featured 18 artists and welcomed over 300 attendees throughout its run. It created a platform for marginalized creatives to share their perspectives and experiences with the broader community. OutLoud (June 13, 2024) Hosted at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, TX, OutLoud was a live performance event celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride through spoken word, music, and dance. Featuring 12 local queer performers, the event drew over 150 guests and fostered community connection, visibility, and affirmation for LGBTQ+ artists of color. Colorwaave Sponsorship (June 9, 2024) Arttitude served as a community sponsor for Colorwaave, a Dallas-based LGBTQ+ event centering queer people of color. Through sponsorship and outreach, Arttitude helped bring together over 250 attendees for a day of celebration, networking, and cultural affirmation, reinforcing its commitment to equity in queer spaces. Voices of Change: Featuring Harryette Ehrhardt (July 18, 2024) This public conversation and oral history event honored longtime activist and educator Harryette Ehrhardt. It drew an intergenerational audience of over 120 participants and helped document and celebrate the impact of LGBTQ+ and civil rights pioneers in North Texas. Lost Faces: Trans Day of Remembrance Exhibition (Nov 1-23, 2024) Arttitude co-sponsored this visual art exhibition in Dallas, TX, which honored the lives of transgender individuals lost to violence. The exhibition featured artwork from 10 trans and nonbinary artists and was attended by over 300 community members. It served as both a memorial and a call to action, advancing public understanding and compassion for the trans community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.4%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 63.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.94; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.