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PRISM DESIGN LAB INC

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2025 · Form 990EZ · revenue $82K · expenses $79K · assets $59K

EIN
88-3306253
Address
616 NC 54 WEST, CHAPEL HILL, NC 27516-0000
NTEE code
B99
Subsection
501(c)(3)
Ruling year
2022
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Mission

Prism Design Lab (Prism) is an arts and education nonprofit organization that works with young people in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. Our mission is to equip youth with the tools they need to shape their built environment by teaching them design skills, giving them the opportunity to practice and cultivate these skills, and supporting them to share their creativity through public art and design services provided to civic organizations like other community-based nonprofit organizations.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

2 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

NameLatest titleYearsLatest year payTotal pay from hereOrganizations
Heather Ferrell Executive Director2024-2025 $24,000$32,000 1
Germane James Board of Directors and Facilitator2025 $1,270$1,270 1

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

6 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

NameLatest titleYearsHrs/wk (latest)CompensationOrganizations
Cortland Gilliam Board of Directors2024-2025 0 $0 reported 1
Erin Krupa Board of Directors2024-2025 0 $0 reported 1
Sarah Montgomery Board of Directors2024-2025 0 $0 reported 1
Chelsea Davis Board of Directors2025 0 $0 reported 1
Vernetta Alston (former) Board of Directors2024 0 $0 reported 1
Brianna Brough (former) Board of Directors2024 0 $0 reported 1

People by year

2025 · 6 people listed · 2 paid, $25K
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
Heather Ferrell Executive Director35 $24,000-- $24,0001
Germane James Board of Directors and Facilitator1 $1,270-- $1,2701
Chelsea Davis Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Cortland Gilliam Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Sarah Montgomery Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Erin Krupa Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
2024 · 6 people listed · 1 paid, $8K
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
Heather Ferrell Executive Director32 $8,000-- $8,0001
Vernetta Alston Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Brianna Brough Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Cortland Gilliam Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Erin Krupa Board of Directors0 $0-- $01
Sarah Montgomery Board of Directors0 $0-- $01

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

RevenueExpensesAssetsNet assetsContributionsProgram revenueOfficer payEmployeesVolunteers
2025 · Form 990EZ period ending 2025-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$82,500$78,601 $59,434$59,434 $82,500- ---
2024 · Form 990EZ period ending 2024-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$78,989$42,649 $55,535$55,535 $77,639$1,350 ---

Funders of this organization

2 grantors reported grants to this organization, $39,000 in all, tax years 2023 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

GrantorTypeMatchYears givenGrantsTotalLatest yearLatest year's amountGrants
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DAF sponsor Exact 2024 1$27,000 2024$27,000
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STROWD ROSES INC Private foundation Fuzzy filed as “PRISM DESIGN LAB INC” 2023, 2025 2$12,000 2025$5,000
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2025 · Form 990EZ · $78,601 spent · pay $24,000 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Salaries, other pay and benefits $24,000 30.5%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $22,435 28.5%
Fees to independent contractors $21,610 27.5%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $9,975 12.7%
Printing, publications, postage $581 0.7%
Total$78,601100%

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2024 · Form 990EZ · $42,649 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Fees to independent contractors $19,436 45.6%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $12,802 30.0%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $10,330 24.2%
Printing, publications, postage $81 0.2%
Total$42,649100%

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