2026-03-06T18:21:38-07:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 471509200 DSTL ARTS DSTL 7605217018 1069 W Avenue 37 Los Angeles CA 90065 Luis Pichardo Founder, Executive Director 7605217018 2026-03-06 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://DSTLArts.org X X 82320 X 72191 1152 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8853 0 8853 0 82320 0 0 40150 0 7716 934 72593 121393 -39073 46955 0 7882 46955 7882 0 0 0 0 46955 7882 0 0 46955 7882 DSTL Arts is a nonprofit arts mentorship organization that inspires, teaches, and hires emerging artists from underserved communities. This mission is achieved through our multiple programs, including our Poet/Artist Development Program, which mentors, trains, and publishes Emerging Poet/Artists from historically marginalized communities; our Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop series for adults, and its associated publication, the Conchas y Café Zine; and our annual sister publications, Art Block Zine and Aurtistic Zine. In FY2025, our organization published a total of 8 new publications and served over 1,000 individuals through live workshops, readings, and direct mentorships (digital and in-person). This is in addition to the 978 viewers of our video-recorded workshops presented online via YouTube. The Poet/Artist Development Program served up to 33 Emerging Poet/Artists, providing direct mentorship and guidance in workforce development-related skills specifically relevant to working artists. This program offered approximately 750 hours of direct mentorship, with an additional 8 hours of professional and workforce development instruction for our mentees and the broader community. Furthermore, this program continued offering Teaching Artist Internships for program participants and also continued producing our podcast, Art Block, featuring writers and artists from across our programs and community. 10000 5720 Conchas y Café Zine is the product of our Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop Series for Adults, offered virtually for FY2025. This biannual, 15-week series continued providing instruction in literary concepts and techniques to participants while publishing their creative writing at the culmination of the two-semester series of workshops. For FY2025, this program produced 1 new publication, with 1 accompanying public reading, serving approximately 450 individuals across all workshop sessions, the reading, and publication distribution. Furthermore, this was accomplished entirely online, utilizing various virtual platforms for instruction, including Zoom, social media livestreams, and YouTube for hosting recorded lessons. 10000 1002 Art Block Zine and Aurtistic Zine are annual, sister publications that feature Emerging Poet/Artists from both Los Angeles County and nationwide, respectively. Both publications have annual open calls for submission from individuals, and each publication seeks to highlight the works of individuals from historically marginalized and underserved populations. In FY2025, our publications released 2 new volumes and served approximately 60 individuals through publication, with an additional 150 total publications distributed in FY2025. Additionally, approximately 150 individuals watched the previously recorded publication readings on the DSTL Arts YouTube channel throughout FY2025. Lastly, our podcast is produced under the banner of the Art Block Zine program, and it reaches an average audience of 400 viewers/listeners annually. 10000 1001 Our Creative Impact workshop series (a sub-program of our Poet/Artist Development Program) offered a paid Teaching Artist Residency for 1 Poet/Artist from a historically marginalized community in Los Angeles County. This program provided 4 in-person social justice-focused workshops that explored the impact of immigration on our local community, and 4 virtual workshops. This program resulted in 1 new publication featuring the artworks of our Teaching Poet/Artists, workshop participants, and LA-based artists, and 1 in-person reading with a social media-based livestream featuring select poets and artists who contributed to the publication. Approximately 300 total individuals engaged with the program either as workshop participants or audience members viewing the associated workshop recordings and readings/performances conducted as a culmination event for the workshop series. The post-program views on YouTube of all related workshops and reading recordings resulted in an additional 200+ individuals benefiting from this program. 15540 1510 9233 Luis Antonio Pichardo Founder, Executive Director; President 40 7287 0 0 Cat Vasko Board Member, Treasurer 2 0 0 0 Jessica Castillo Board Member, Secretary 2 0 0 0 Leslie Graham Board Member 2 0 0 0 Alicia Ramirez Board Member 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Luis Antonio Pichardo 1069 W Avenue 37 Los Angeles CA 90065 7605217018 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 94107 143735 165802 131662 72191 607497 0 0 0 0 0 0 4750 3750 2000 0 1000 11500 98857 147485 167802 131662 73191 618997 618997 0 0 0 446 124 570 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 619567 9956 0.99908 0.99935 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Advertising and Marketing Expenses: $3,500; Bank Fees and Service Charges: $119; Payroll Service, Sales Taxes Filing, and Legal Fees: $1,732; General Operating Expenses: $18,962; Liability Insurance: $3,116; Travel Expenses: $293; Mobile Art Lab Programming Expenses: $29,006; In-Kind Volunteers, Venue Rental, and Software Expenses: $6,958; Program Materials Expenses; $9233; Reconciliation Discrepancy ($326)