American Gothic Performing Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421422382
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Ottumwa, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5154185692
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $339,055
- Expenses
- $339,011
- Assets
- $89,972
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHASE KELLY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHASE KELLY (PRESIDENT)
- KYLE ROEMERMAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- ANDREA EDGE (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Celebrating the performing arts, specifically musical theater in the performing of full-length feature musicals and junior musicals presented by high school age students. Providing education with musical training, choral presentations and band performances of varying musical styles all aimed at enhancing the talents of local performers by collaboration with performing arts groups throughout the area.
What it reported doing in 2024
The american gothic performing arts festival presented a four-week summer performing arts festival during the 2025 fiscal year, producing theatrical and musical performances along with community engagement activities that advanced access to the arts in southeast Iowa. The festival included its annual arts gala, held at the bridge view center in collaboration with bridge view center, featuring guest artists and serving as a primary fundraising and community engagement event in support of the organization's mission. Festival programming included a fully staged production of ken ludwig's lend me a tenor and a concert presentation of sweeney todd. The festival also featured to be heard: shadows in america, a concert of american music exploring themes of history, identity, and shared national experience. The season concluded with a fully staged production of annie, expanding family and youth engagement and appealing to multi-generational audiences. Across its four-week run, the festival served approximately 1,500 audience members. Total annual expenditures for the organization were approximately 335,000. Using the americans for the arts arts & economic prosperity 5 calculator, the festival generated a verified local economic impact of 380,393, supporting local businesses and contributing to the cultural and economic vitality of the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $195.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $320K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.