Arm of the Sea Productions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141745940
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Maldenonhudson, NY, USA
Phone
8452467873
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$208,564
Expenses
$161,747
Assets
$430,240
Liabilities
$22,482

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ELIZA BLUM (MEMBER AT LA)
  • DEBORAH CONATHAN (MEMBER AT LA)
  • VICTORIO DECKER (MEMBER AT LA)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of arm-of-the-sea productions is to spark wonder, engender joy, offer insight and enrich the public imagination.

What it reported doing in 2025

At our waterfront cultural park and home-stage incubator in saugerties, ny we created and premiered two new theater productions, presented nine public performances, and hosted four weeks of hands-on community programming. -tidewater arts & ecology summer camp - three sessions of our immersive site-specific discovery camp for ages 8-13. Fishing was voted in favorite activity -waterfront wednesday - a weekly event series featuring aquariums, stream table demonstrations, guest artists and community chiors. Each evening culminated with an arm-of-the-sea performance of from rags to riches: stories from a saugerties paper mill. -mask & puppet theater intensive - a seven-day workshop for adults in which participants helped create characters and then performed alongside company puppeteers in our 23rd annual esopus creek puppet suite. The production drew from evolutionary history and greek mythology to offer a meditation and empirical knowledge and imperial overreach. 2025 capital improvements at tidewater center included: -installation of grid electrical service - after four seasons operating tidewater from a small solar trailer, contractors ran 550' of underground conduit and overhead lines connected to the new program support center & the performance tent. Next step: a permanent onsite solar array. -planted waterfront buffer - designed to absorb and filter rain runoff from the parking area, this planted buffer strip of perennials was orchestrated by master gardener ann krupp. -hand-stenciled banners created by artistic director marlena marallo - over 150' of images evoking cellular biology, hydrological cycles and geologic processes wrap around the interior of the performance tent.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $58.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.66; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $144K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.