Alliance for Metal Clay Arts Worldwide Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830828054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Amelia, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9046128649
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,716
- Expenses
- $87,595
- Assets
- $272,883
- Liabilities
- $98,054
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pam Feindel (President and Director)
- Steve Spurgin (Vice President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Pam Feindel (President and Director)
- Wendy Ernst (Treasurer and Director)
- Steve Spurgin (Vice President and 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
Alliance for Metal Clay Arts Worldwide, Inc. (AMCAW) is an arts organization created to unite and serve the international community of metal clay artists, educators, students, suppliers and others with an interest in the medium. AMCAW's mission is to encourage a flourishing international metal clay community by nurturing artist and instructional excellence and providing resources to inspire, engage and support artists of all levels. AMCAW will help to unify the community, regardless of brand or formula preference, experience level, or location. The organization will introduce metal clay to new users and bolster the reputation of metal clay in the greater arts community. As of 12/31/25 AMCAW had 805 members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Metal Clay Archives - AMCAW is in the process of gathering and documenting source documents to preserve the history of metal clay. Once established, the archives will be available to members and the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.1%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 49.1%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.1% of revenue deployed · 49.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.