Legal identity
Legal name: For the Children, Inc.
Doing business as: Arts & Education 4 DFW Youths
EIN: 45-4920902
Status: 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity
About us
A small nonprofit with a long memory.
For the Children, Inc. exists for one reason: to give Dallas–Fort Worth kids the arts and academic support that too often depend on which zip code they were born in.
How it started
One person who remembered what it felt like.
James Rosenberg founded Arts & Education 4 DFW Youths from his own experience — what it feels like to need a place to make things, and what changes when you finally find one.
The organization grew out of Plano and into the wider Dallas–Fort Worth region, carrying a simple conviction: the kids who get the least access to art and enrichment are usually the ones with the most to say.
Today the work runs under For the Children, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity. Same mission, sturdier structure.
What we believe
Four things we refuse to compromise on.
01 — Access
Access is the point.
Talent is everywhere. Transportation, supplies, and tuition are not. We spend our time removing the second list.
02 — Consistency
Show up, repeatedly.
One great workshop doesn’t change a life. Ten weeks of them, with the same adults in the room, can.
03 — Dignity
Dignity first.
Families shouldn’t have to prove hardship to be treated like people. No means-testing theater, no paperwork gauntlet.
04 — Both
Arts and academics together.
Creativity without a diploma is a dead end. A diploma without creativity is a smaller life. Our kids get both.
Organization
The details, in plain language.
Nonprofits should be easy to check up on. Here is what we are, who runs it, and where the paperwork lives.
Leadership
Founder & director: James Rosenberg
Based in: Plano, Texas
Service area: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Governance: board and filing details available on request.
Public records
Our IRS filings are public. You can look us up by EIN 45-4920902 in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search or on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.
View public filingsHow to reach a human
Questions about the program, a donation, or a partnership go straight to the founder’s inbox — not a ticket queue.
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