Street Poets

Name

Street Poets

Legal name

Street Poets Inc.

Website

https://streetpoetsinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Arts Education

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), Musical Groups and Artists (71113)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts Education & Community Arts Programs (BPAGAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Poetry Workshops (EDAMAMAB), Community Theatre & Storytelling Festivals (MPAGAEAI), Cultural Festivals & Events Organizations (BPAGAHAG)

Keywords

• Youth poetry programs
• Creative arts education
• Community healing workshops
• School workshop programs
• Music production training

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropic Support: Nonprofit organization funded primarily through donations from individuals, foundations, and corporate sponsors. Website features prominent donate CTA.
2. Program Services Revenue: Revenue from contracted services with schools and probation departments through workshop programs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Street Poets is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that delivers youth-focused creative arts programs combining poetry, hip-hop theater, music production, and urban gardening. The organization runs workshops and events in schools, probation facilities, and community settings, and produces youth-made music albums annually that culminate in live listening parties. Programs are funded primarily through donations, foundation grants, and contracted services with school districts and probation departments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SP Presents Performance and live showcase program presenting Street Poets youth performers and creative works to community audiences.
• Seeking Peace Peace-building and conflict resolution program delivered through poetry and creative expression workshops for youth.
• Healing Horizons Healing-centered program that uses poetry and music for youth development and community building.
• Poetry in Motion Van Mobile poetry program that brings creative healing workshops directly to underserved communities across Los Angeles via a dedicated van.
• Poetic ReFrames Workshop program helping youth reframe personal perspectives and narratives through guided poetic expression.
• Hip-Hop Theater Program combining hip-hop culture and theater arts to enable creative expression and performance by youth participants.
• Poetry & Gardening Program that combines horticulture and urban gardening with poetry, connecting youth to nature through creative expression.
• Beats & Rhymes Music production program teaching youth beat-making and rap skills, supporting the organization's annual youth-produced music albums.
• School & Probation Workshops Contracted workshop programs that bring creative healing curricula to youth in school and probation settings.

Quantifiable outcome

• Youth produce music albums annually
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Harlem GlobetrotterscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 October 2025Collaborative 'Play It Forward' program featuring Harlem Globetrotters and Street Poets youth, combining sports, art, and community engagement. Video content produced showcasing the partnership.

Scale indicators3 records

Direct peers

• Get Lit - Words Ignite: Los Angeles-based youth poetry and spoken-word nonprofit using poetry to empower teens in schools and the justice system; nearly identical mission, target population, and contracted-services model as Street Poets, making it the closest direct peer.
• Urban Word NYC: New York-based nonprofit using spoken word, poetry, and hip-hop pedagogy to develop literacy and leadership in underserved youth; closely comparable program model and school/workshop delivery model to Street Poets.
• Young Chicago Authors: Chicago-based literary arts nonprofit running Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth poetry slam; serves schools with poetry workshops and produces youth performances — directly comparable to Street Poets' workshop-plus-performance delivery model.
• Writers in the Schools (WITS): Houston-area nonprofit placing professional writers in classrooms and juvenile justice settings to teach creative writing; essentially the school-workshop + probation-track peer to Street Poets in a different metro.
• Pongo Publishing: Seattle-based nonprofit that teaches poetry to youth in detention, psychiatric facilities, and homeless shelters; mirrors Street Poets' probation/justice-system creative-healing program almost exactly.
• Unusual Suspects Theatre Company: Los Angeles nonprofit using theatre arts to engage at-risk and court-involved youth in schools and detention facilities; competes for the same LA probation and school district contracts as Street Poets, with a theatre rather than poetry slant.

Broad incumbents

• Inner-City Arts: Large, established LA-based arts education nonprofit serving underserved youth with visual and performing arts programs; competes with Street Poets for the same LA school contracts, foundation dollars, and youth demographic, but operates at a much larger scale with a broader arts scope.
• A Place Called Home: Established South LA youth development nonprofit offering arts, education, and wellness programming to underserved youth; overlaps with Street Poets on arts programming for at-risk youth and competes for the same LA foundation funding pools.

Emerging players

• The Harmony Project: LA-based nonprofit providing free music instruction and mentorship to youth from low-income communities; serves the same LA youth demographic through school and community programming, competing for foundation funding in arts education.

Others

• Poetry Foundation: Major national literary-arts foundation and Poetry magazine publisher; directly relevant as an existing funder of Street Poets (noted $30,000 grant in 2024) and a potential channel for additional grants and partnership opportunities in the youth-poetry space.

Market position

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/streetpoetsinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/StreetPoetsInc
• Instagraminstagram.com/streetpoetsinc
• TikToktiktok.com/@streetpoetsinc
• Xx.com/streetpoetsinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/street-poets-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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