2025-11-17T15:10:38-08:00 2024-12-31 330180424 Johnson & Associates An Accountancy Corporation 3868 W Carson St Suite 105 Torrance CA 90503 990 2024-01-01 953252001 Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children FREE 3103134278 11099 S La Cienega Boulevard 235 Los Angeles CA 90045 Bianca Hunter Executive Dir. 2025-11-17 true true William J Johnson P00037587 3105407477 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jennifer Foyer 11099 S La Cienega Boulevard 235 Los Angeles CA 90045 862800 false X www.freearts.org X 1977 CA Free Arts programs inspire hope in the lives of children who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through innovative creative arts programs and positive interactions with caring adult volunteers. 4 4 3 200 0 627628 827489 0 2248 8378 -22993 0 606883 835867 0 0 200513 168369 0 30374 500446 535350 700959 703719 -94076 132148 511799 689558 38527 84138 473272 605420 Free Arts programs inspire hope in the lives of children who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through innovative creative arts programs and positive interactions with caring adult volunteers. 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The standard also provides guidance for derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition. The Organization is exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Organization believes that it has appropriate support for the positions taken on its tax returns and that the exempt status would be sustained on examination. The Organization classifies interest and penalties on underpayments of income taxes, if any, as interest expense and penalties, respectively, on the statement of activities. The Organization files tax returns in the United States federal and California state jurisdictions. The Organization is no longer subject to tax examinations for California before 2019 or for the United States federal purposes before 2020. X X X X false CA Art Swagger 61238 34305 26933 26933 61238 34305 26933 26933 26933 X Volunteer service hrs 1 335271 FMV X Furniture 1 7315 FMV false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 5 A check in the amount of $10,000 was intercepted from the USPS, washed, cleaned and rewritten and fraudulently cashed. Once Free Arts found out about it they reached out to their bank to rectify the situation. Free Arts is still in the process of recouping the funds. No Free Arts staff, personnel, or members were involved in this diversion of assets. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Form 990 is reviewed and approved by the members of the Board of Directors Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Prior to board or committee action on a Contract or Transaction involving a Conflict of interest, a director or committee member having a Conflict of Interest and who is in attendance at the meeting shall disclose all facts material to the Conflict of Interest. Such disclosure shall be reflected in the minutes of the meeting. If board members are aware that staff or other volunteers have a conflict of interest, relevant facts should be disclosed by the board member or by the interested person him/herself if invited to the board meeting as a guest for purposes of disclosure. A person who has a Conflict of Interest with respect to a contract or transaction that will be voted on at a meeting shall not be counted in determining the presence of a quorum for purposes of the vote. The person having a conflict of interest may not vote on the Contract or Transaction and shall not be present in the meeting room when the vote is taken, unless the vote is by secret ballot. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Form 990 is available to the public in the website of the Attorney General's Office, guidestar.org, and on the Organization's website - www.freearts.org