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Filing year 2024

RECESS ACTIVITIES INC

Brooklyn, New York·EIN 27-1109399·NTEE A20 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$647k
Total assets
$4.5M
Total expenses
$1.9M
Reported officers
9
Mission

RECESS PARTNERS WITH ARTISTS AND YOUTH TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE CREATIVE COMMUNITY. BY WELCOMING RADICAL THINKERS TO IMAGINE AND SHAPE NETWORKS OF RESILIENCE AND SAFETY, RECESS DEFINES AND ADVANCES THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART. OUR PROGRAMS OFFER SPACE AND RESOURCES TO GENERATE ART, IDEAS AND ACTIONS THAT CHALLENGE DOMINANT NARRATIVES AND ACTIVATE NEW FORMS. RECESS IS ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO SERVE AS A MEETING PLACE FOR MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE ACROSS A MULTIPLICITY OF COMMUNITIES.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 6 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Ex-officio / Co-director
officer (unspecified)
$142k
$154k
Ex-officio / Co-director
officer (unspecified)
$101k
$109k
Director
board member
$3k
$3k
Secretary
officer (unspecified)
$3k
$3k
Treasurer
officer (unspecified)
$3k
$3k
Chair
board chair
$2k
$2k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 3 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Up 17%
from 2023

From $121k in 2023 to $142k in 2024.

$121k
2023
$142k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 13% in real terms$136k to $154k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

RECESS ACTIVITIES INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.3M
$1.8M
2023
$647k
$1.9M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in New York

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $71,214.

25th percentile
$26k
Median
$71,214
75th percentile
$161k
90th percentile
$321k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 608 organizations across 608 filings (2021 – 2023).

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