Ajo Council for the Fine Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 860897953
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Ajo, AZ, USA
Phone: 4067888923
Rating: 85
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Music

Reported finances

Revenue: $44,008
Expenses: $42,919
Assets: $28,182

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Janel Bargas (President)

People named in this filing

Jennifer Jankovich (Director)
Stephen Brooks (Director)
Cynthia Sequanna (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Ajo Council for the Fine Arts is to bring performing, visual, educational and entertaining art activities to Ajo and western Pima County, to provide a venue for local artists to sell their work, and to promote art education in Western Pima County.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided a venue for local artists to sell their work, and to promote art education in Western Pima County

Operating model

Revenue model: Other-operating. 61% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 79
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 41
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.