American Institute of Graphics Arts Inc San Diego
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330239800
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192339633
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,013
- Expenses
- $26,648
- Assets
- $46,269
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maelin Levine (President)
People named in this filing
- Maelin Levine (President)
- Maximo Escobedo (VP Cross Border)
- Esther Coit (Treasurer)
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
Promote professionalism in the graphic art industry and to aid graphic artists.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other events sponsored by the organization such as meetings, workshops, professional education and networking events for the promotion of AIGA membership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.3%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.6%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.3% of revenue deployed · 46.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.