Amanda&james Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464797025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $237,832
- Expenses
- $292,111
- Assets
- $-6,549
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Amanda Hameline (Founding Director): $25,250 total reported compensation
- James Danner (Founding Director): $25,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Amanda + James is a New York-based company dedicated to producing the work of emerging artists. We provide a space for this community to follow creative impulses, refine ideas into projects, and collaborate and learn from their peers. In this open environment for interdisciplinary collaboration, the company is sparking conversations between rising artists across as wide a range of artistic disciplines as possible, encouraging multifaceted perspectives throughout the creative process.
What it reported doing in 2024
Amanda+James provides multidisciplinary artists with opportunities to develop and present their work, and offers audiences the chance to engage up-close with high-quality, multidisciplinary performance work. In fulfillment of this mission, A+J produces a handful of ongoing programs tailored to general areas of making; programs include: Sessions (chamber music), PlayTime (theatrical work), Dance+ (interdisciplinary dance work), Summer Happenings (performance art) and Working Titles (opera). These programs are the bulk of the work of the company and allow us to provide significant impact to a wide range of artists and their work, not only through the mounting and presentation but also through high fidelity audio and visual recordings provided to the artists for their use. In addition, Amanda + James develops and presents larger-scale, wide-ranging interdisciplinary productions. Finally, Amanda + James partners with individual artists and other nonprofit artists to offer creative, curatorial, and administrative support through its co-production program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $611.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: -0.02; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $227K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.