Amherst Glebe Arts Response Inc Agar
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061790232
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Amherst, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4349892846
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,829
- Expenses
- $48,820
- Assets
- $4,477
- Liabilities
- $558
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynn Kable (President and Chair of Board of Directors)
People named in this filing
- Lynn Kable (President and Chair of Board of Directors)
- Edward E Kable (Treasurer & Director)
- Marcia Robertson Ph D (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
Arts and Humanities production, presentation & education.
What it reported doing in 2025
(3)Humanities Project: "Coolwell Interviews". This AGAR sponsored community history project with participation by the Amherst County Museum and Historical Society, and lead by historian Crystal Rosson, recorded video interviews of six black Coolwell community members, and produced a 45 minute video, which was publicly presented in the Museum's Hamble Center by Ms. Rosson and historian Lynne Rainville. The video was also put up on AGAR's and the Museum's YouTube channel, available to all. Expenses $6,200. Persons benefitted 6 interviewees, 54 audience at Museum plus viewers of the Video on line. (4)AGAR engaged in various other community presentations, including (a)Early Folk-artists of Monticello. Storyteller Sheila Arnold and Musician David McCormick presented songs and stories from historical Monticello to two audiences, at First Christian Church of Lynchburg, and then to RS Payne Elementary School classes. Persons benefitted: Church audience 47, Students & teachers 56. Expenses: $4,296. (b)AGAR presented mezzo-soprano Sabina Petra, accompanied by pianist Mark Stevens at The Summit Senior Center, Lynchburg. Persons Benefitted: 48. Expenses: $975, (c)AGAR presented Glenn Buck's Troubadours performing at Fairmont Crossing Nursing Home, Amherst. Persons Benefitted 52 Expenses $500. (d)AGAR presented the Chelsea Hoest Dancers and fiddler Jim Robertson at the Amherst Museum's Colonial Folk Day. Persons benefitted 150. Expenses $300. For this fee Robinson also played for CVACL Nutrition sites in three locations. Persons benefitted 48. (e)AGAR, in cooperation with Opera on the James, presented a short version of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" at Second Stage Amherst, free for Amherst County employees on their lunch break. We negotiated with the County Supervisors an extra 30 minutes for employee lunch, and AGAR furnished the lunches. Persons benefitted 50. Expenses $125. Total Other Expenses: 12,396
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.