Tww Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
113634316
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
9177432835
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$86,285
Expenses
$24,192
Assets
$273,698
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Stephen A Wilson Jr (Chair, Founder)
  • Denise Beachem (Secretary)
  • Jennifer Davis (Treasurer)

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

Arts based organization, the foundation is the arts, education, culture & humanities, and ethnic awareness.

What it reported doing in 2025

African American (55%), Hispanic (25%), Asian (0%), White (0%), People of mixed heritage (20%), Low Income (100%), free food program (98%), at-risk (30%), Special Education (25%) TWW Inc. continued service to the arts, education, community, and culture is a valued & ethical based organization whose mission is to help students & adults in regular, after-school, and special programs with their overall educational/Mental Health needs in the New York Tri-state area by using Multi-Art and Creative Arts Therapy programs, especially in the low income, and at-risk communities. The organization is dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing, life-enhancing, and is a fundamental need for development. Our programs motivate students to empower themselves to be high achievers, and build their life skills for positive decision making, and gain a greater sense of self. Purpose: Our academic art education activities are rounded out by a variety of cultural, creative, and recreation-related options, which give students exposure to a wide range of new ideas and concepts, encourage self-expression and confidence, and inspire socialization and leadership skills. We incorporate the arts into their curriculum/development to increase the ability for students' to have strong overall developmental skills. Our programs motivate students to ask questions, research the answers, challenge those answers, and gain a greater sense of self. In dealing with diversity and multicultural awareness, students recognizing that all the people are unique in their own way. Their differences could consist of their reading level, athletic ability, cultural background, personality, and religious beliefs. To embrace diversity, make positive use of it, value diversity, and the need to model this attitude to their students. Value diversity, they recognize and respect the fact that people are different and that these differences is generally a good thing. Our art instructors' major aim is to create an equal educational opportunity which provides students with an environment that is conducive to learning. Background: For Nineteen years, served over 5000 students throughout the years, TWW Inc's mission highlights the impact of culture, traditional art-making, and history. These objectives are expressed within the communities. These communities are served by TWW Inc. primarily in the underserved communities of the boroughs of New York. Through the work of professional teaching artists, TWW Inc.'s unique learning approach, by using the arts, and understanding the cultures they serve, which creates paths that led to their individual and shared American experience. TWW Inc has also partnered with organizations such as Children's Aid Society, TASC, and Beacon. This Year was challenging: With the public health crisis around COVID-19, we can easily attest that our community has been tested and challenged this year. We are expecting to return to the schools in Spring 2022 to continue our art educational programs with the school guidelines of teaching. We are dedicated to preserving the arts, history, culture, programs that supports mental health, and educational needs of all. TWW Inc. stands firmly in our belief that when youth engage with art that their cognitive abilities and even their lives, are improved. Our programs are aligned with their curriculum (social studies, art history, cultures and so on). By using our multi-discipline arts program, we help students with their overall educational needs, by giving them hand-on art programs that will allow them to process their work in a different way. By using hands-on techniques, this process allows the student to comprehend their studies more effectively, and helps the overall developmental skills of the individual. Different tracking and measuring student outcomes will involve multiple metrics that deal from educational to mental growth. Beyond the enrollment and participation tracking, T

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 76% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 72%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.31; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.