Allied Arts Council of St Joseph Missouri
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430810827
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Saint Joseph, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8162330231
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,209
- Expenses
- $497,143
- Assets
- $740,264
- Liabilities
- $26,990
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA AGNEW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LIBY WALTEMATH (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE NORMAN (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- VAL JONES (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA AGNEW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $43,359 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the allied arts council is to enrich the lives of the citizens of the st. Joseph, Missouri, and the surrounding area by bringing arts and people together.
What it reported doing in 2024
Core program arts fund, arts education programs include artists in the schools, the st. Joseph sculpture walk, along with the arts fund, furthers the education of area students and gives the community exposure to the arts. In fy 2025, the artists in the schools program reached 1300 students and teachers. The numbers for sculpture walk remained constant, with over 20,000 exposures. The art services aac provides to member agencies include marketing support, cultural planning, and fundraising through the annual arts fund campaign. The arts fund endowment is a plan in progress to ensure the long-term financial security of the arts fund and the arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.9%; rating input score 94; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $357K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.