Tieton Arts and Humanities
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Tieton Arts and Humanities enriches and celebrates our community through artistic and cultural programming.
- Income
- $78,262
- Spending
- $63,401
- Reserves
- 5.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 92%
- Highest pay
- $3,600, executive dir.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (5)
- $11,168 spent. creARTe: After 10+ years, Tieton's summer Art in the Park program has grown up! We have expanded it to offer high quality, cocurricular programming for K12 kids in the Upper Yakima Valley all year long. The program is now called creARTe, a portmanteau of create+art, that works in both Spanish and in English. We are partnering with the Highland School District to create experiences that complement school lessons in both content and approach. Nearly all of our after school, summer, and weekend programming for creARTe happens at our new permanent home, at 807 Tieton Ave.
- $16,535 spent. Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a vibrant community celebration honoring both los muertos and beauty of life. Day of the Dead celebrations began in Central America, and have roots in indigenous and Catholic traditions. Sweet sugar skulls, bright colors, and bitter smelling cempazuchitl (calendula, or marigold) flowers evoke vibrant, ephemeral life and bitter, inevitable death; embracing both. Each year Tieton Arts & Humanities creates on huge community altar and we invite everyone to add to it. 1000+ visitors bring photos of loved ones, write messages, and bring mementos, candies, or foods. This provides a unique opportunity to remember the special people in our lives that are no longer with us. The day of celebration features arts and crafts activities, a sand painting by Seattle based Oaxacan artist Fulgencio Lazo, sugar skull decorating and more! The gallery exhibition runs for five weeks afterward. Admission is always free and everyone is welcome.
- $1,479 spent. 10x10x10Tieton: A juried exhibition, Tieton Arts & Humanities invites artists to submit work that is not larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches. Works can be of any media or process from photo, painting, printmaking, book arts, video, ceramic, glass, metal, wood, and more. In 2021, jurors invited 187 submissions of 875 received from around the globe, creating one of the most diverse shows in the Yakima Valley. In person and online gallery sales support artists and the organization. 2024 was the last year for this program.
- $651 spent. LiTFUSE is Tieton Arts & Humanities first program. Founded in 2007 by Michael Schein, LiTFUSE began as an annual weekend long poets' workshop. LiTFUSE UNiTE Poets' Workshop has always been inclusive & welcoming to poets of all ages, levels, backgrounds and styles. The mission of LiTFUSE is to unite all kinds of poets throughout the Northwest and beyond, and to open us to fresh voices and inspiration, and to deepen community with our fellow poets and artists. LiTFUSE FUEL: Featured Reader & Open Mic Series launched in May 2022. This monthly event takes place every fourth Saturday (Feb-Nov). FUEL is free and open to the public. Featured readers have included Raul Sanchez, Kristin Berger, Derek Sheffield, Alberto Sveum, and Michael Schmeltzer.
- $877 spent. Imagine a doorway, a portal through which your donated arts and craft supplies pass to children and adults who love to create! Maybe you still have boxes of crayons and markers that your children enjoyed, but oops now they are in college! Doesn't your Aunt Lydia have boxes of fabric and yarn that she no longer uses? Is it time to sort your bookshelves and donate all the art and how to books? Are you a teacher? Would you love supplies for your classroom? The Portal Project donates art and craft supplies to: children, adults, and teachers. We seek out programs serving youth and adults that can use our donations. We sponsor super art materials giveaways during TA&H programming! We can pass along just about any clean and usable material including... pencils, crayons, markers, paints, brushes, magazines, fabric, scissors, colored paper, toilet paper rolls, plastic containers for water, brayers, printmaking ink, books, woodworking scraps... the list goes on and on.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2009.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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