2026-05-14T07:07:48-07:00 2025-12-31 Donald J Frederick CPA 605 Bushnell Court Virginia Beach VA 23451 990 2025-01-01 471131974 ViBe District Virginia Beach VIBE 7572029533 PO Box 3601 Virginia Beach VA 23454 Laura B Wood President 7572029533 2026-04-01 true Donald J Frederick P00629576 7574069072 X 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Laura Wood 600 22nd St Virginia Beach VA 23451 458198 false X ViBecreativedistrict.org X 2015 VA Our Mission: to promote, support, connect, and inspire the creative industries to boost our local economy, grow jobs, and enhance our quality of life 28 27 1 50 0 0 446170 427107 31076 13 15 350 0 446533 458198 0 0 97390 97143 0 22452 348760 357711 446150 454854 383 3344 177043 210888 66500 97000 110543 113888 X Our Mission: to promote, support, connect, and inspire the creative industries to boost our local economy, grow jobs, and enhance our quality of life true false 38077 0 0 Art Events - First Fridays, Second Saturdays, Art of Humanity and Small Business Saturday Art events are a key componet of the ViBe Creative Districts year-round program calendar. First Fridays are national movement celebrated in cultural arts districts throughout the country In the ViBe Creative District, Local businesses, artists and creatives host pop-up events, free art exhibits and other entertainment from late afternoon until early evening on every First Friday of the month. Second Saturdays are a daytime compliment to First Fridays and provide daylight hours in which to execute public art projects. Every month on the Second Saturday local businesses artists and creatives host pop-ups, culinary arts specials, fashion or jewelry trends exhibits and occassional public art projects to celebrate the creative art district. The Art of Humanity Partnership with the Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission welcomes community cultural partners to celebrate the Season of Nonviolence. Small Business Saturdays includes popup vendor fair for small, local businesses consisting of artists, crafters, and makers in celebration on the national shop small holiday. In 2024, ViBe added a Creative Mornings Virginia Beach artists lecture series to promote individual artists, entrepreneurs and creative business owners. In 2025, the ViBe Creative District celebrated ten years of public programing 67625 0 0 Public Art Projects - ViBe Mural Festival, VB Street Art Festival, Sidewalk Mini Murals, Large-scale Wall Murals, Creative Crosswalks, temporary Fence Murals and other artist lead activities occur throughout the year within the district. Since 2018 the nonprofit has hosted the annual Mural Festival to add 10 Murals in 10 Days to exterior building walls around the district. This continues to be the organizationss largest event, now celebrating seven years. ViBe Creative District began painting creative crosswalks in 2016. This program also continues to this day completing six in 2024. In 2025, ViBe partnered with Virginia Beach Schools to paint a parking lot with seventeen works of art by local students. Working with local artists and the City of Virginia Beach, locations for the creative crosswalks are determined within the Arts District boundaries. Open calls to artists for designs take place in advance of free and open to the public painting events where the chosen artists lead the public in creation of artwork on the street Temporary Fence Murals line over 500 linear feet within the ViBes 18th Street Parklet, as well as the new Mediteranean Ave Parklet & Butterfly Garden. When completed the project will feature 100 plywood murals that will rotate on a 1-2 year basis to afford opportunities for local students and artists to create new work Artists-led activities from mosaic planters to nature walks offer exciting ways for the public to meet working artists and engage in the creative process. In 2025, the ViBe nonprofit added ten murals through the Mural Festival and fifteen new neighborhood identifier murals with the the VB Street Art Festival. Sculptures lining the streets of the district. 287875 0 0 Artists Stipends Supporting local, working artists is critical to the success of the ViBe Creative District and is an important part of our arts advocacy efforts. From significant stipends for large wall murals, small stipends for participation in 1-2 hour events to materials reimbursements for new artworks, created for the District and large-scale projects warranting significant stipends, the nonprofit actively fundraised on behalf of the artist community in order to pay artists for their time and talents. Paid artists stipends were critical to our creative community in 2021 during the pandemic when many local artists went without jobs. In 2022, Singer Songwriter Saturdays diversified our artist roster to increase the number of performing artists that included original music in their own sets. In 2023, ViBe partnered with the CIty of Virginia Beach to feature 22 artists works on the back of Convention Center with way-finding signage via digital art wraps. In 2025, ViBe paid over ninty artists to complete mission based works on behalf of the Nonprofit. 393577 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 108 0 true 1 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 28 27 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false true false false VA X X Katherine E Pittman 7574010767 PO Box 3601 Virginia Beach VA 23454 Katherine E Pittman Executive Director 40.00 X X 89808 0 0 Andrew S Fine Past President 5.00 X 0 0 0 Laura B Wood President 10.00 X 0 0 0 Jody Wagner Vice President 10.00 X 0 0 0 Lawrence Steingold Treasurer 10.00 X 0 0 0 LG Shaw Secretary 10.00 X 0 0 0 BJ Griffin Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Brian Jones Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Cole Werkheiser Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Robin Brickell Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Aaron Phipps Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Greg Zittrain Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jeremy Maloney Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Kim Shuler Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Nadine Paniccia Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Derrick Borte Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Bill Gambrell Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Kara Hanger Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Donald Frederick Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Nate Fine Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Dare Ruffin Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Poetry Jackson Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Scott McCluney Turstee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Martha McClees Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Harshad Barot Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lisa DeNoia Liaison FDC Board 1.00 X 0 0 0 Crystal Sessoms VAACC Liaison 1.00 X 0 0 0 Margaret Foltz Liaison VBAC 1.00 X 0 0 0 Alison Byrne Liaison VMOCA 1.00 X 0 0 0 89808 0 0 false false false 9361 225929 191817 427107 31076 0 0 31076 15 0 15 458198 31076 0 15 89808 53885 13471 22452 7335 0 7335 0 17919 17919 0 0 25 0 25 0 292500 292500 0 0 27221 27221 0 0 17994 0 17994 0 2052 2052 0 0 454854 393577 38825 22452 170413 193848 1500 10500 3462 15000 11922 5130 3078 177043 210888 66500 97000 66500 97000 X 110543 113888 110543 113888 177043 210888 X 3344 1 X false false false X 0 239582 377273 411375 446533 458198 1932961 0 0 239582 377273 411375 446533 458198 1932961 0 1932961 0 0 0 1932961 1.00000 1.00000 X 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 15000 11922 3078 3078 Pt VI, Line 11b All Tax Documents are reviewed in a meeting of the Board and are otherwise listed as available on request on the organizations website Pt III, Line 2 ViBe has partnered wiith VB School students for Paint the Parking Lot projects (17). Pt VI, Line 15a For 2024, volunteer organization changed treatment of the Executive Director from an outside contractor receiving a 1099 for services to a W-2 payroll employee. This change was a result of an compromise order from the IRS Both the consulting fee and payroll amounts have been verified as reasonable. Pt VI, Line 12c Annual meetings include a renewal of conflict statements by Board Members Pt VI, Line 19 All Organization and other documents are available upon request Pt XI Line 9 Rounding error $1.00 Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Program Service Costs Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Creative Mornings 6316. 6316. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Mural Festival 37682. 37682. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Creative Crosswalks 5969. 5969. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Fence Murals 735. 735. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g ViBe Park 14205. 14205. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Public Art Sculptures 12724. 12724. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Educational Outreach 2704. 2704. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Other Programs & Services 8925. 8925. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Program Services Artist Stipends Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Creative Morning Artist 11330. 11330. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Mural Festival 76019. 76019. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Creative Crosswalks 700. 700. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g ViBe Part Artists 72073. 72073. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Public Art Stipends 37638. 37638. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Other Artists 5480. 5480.