New York, NY

COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC

EIN 13-4114145

Education & Youth Development Youth Arts & Creative Learning Children & youth Low-income Communities of color

Mission

Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC

Community-Word Project Inc (CWP) is a New York City–based 501(c)(3) arts-in-education organization founded in 2000. It delivers arts-integrated residency programs in Title I public schools, library and community-site workshops, and professional development for teaching artists.

CWP operates a multi-part program model that includes in-school and after-school Collaborative Arts Residencies, the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) with a nationally recognized Summer Institute, and partnership work with public libraries and school networks across NYC. The organization emphasizes social-justice–informed pedagogy, creative writing and interdisciplinary arts practice to support literacy, social-emotional learning, and student voice.

The organization publishes audited financial statements and Form 990 filings on its website, reports active programming and fundraising activity through 2025–2026, and documents both multi-year impact and ongoing annual reach. CWP reports serving over 2,000 students and training roughly 60–80 teaching-artist trainees in a recent year, and it marked its 25th anniversary in 2025.

Notable achievements

Long-term reach

Since its founding in 2000, Community-Word Project reports having taught over 37,200 New York City youth and trained more than 980 teaching artists, demonstrating sustained multi-decade impact in arts education.

Current annual impact

In recent reporting years CWP states it directly reaches over 2,000 NYC students annually and trains approximately 60–80 Teaching Artist trainees per year through residencies, library workshops, and cohort-based professional development.

Teaching Artist Project & Summer Institute

CWP’s Teaching Artist Project (TAP) includes a nationally recognized Summer Institute and leads a TAP Alliance of arts-in-education organizations, providing advanced, anti-racist pedagogy and field-building professional development for teaching artists.

At a glance

Total assets: $1.0M
Annual revenue: $1.5M
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 13-4114145
Location: New York, NY
Website: communitywordproject.org
On Mahalo since: May 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Charity Navigator four-star rating (97% score) reflecting high marks for accountability, finance, and impact measurement in recent fiscal-year assessments.

Financial transparency: audited financial statements (prepared by an independent audit firm) and recent Form 990 filings are published on the organization’s website.

Broad institutional support from reputable funders and partners, including foundations (e.g., New York Community Trust), government arts funders (NEA, NYSCA, NYC cultural agencies), corporate partners, and public-library and school partnerships across NYC.

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