Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382756805
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4803619151
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $421,990
- Expenses
- $361,906
- Assets
- $564,016
- Liabilities
- $110,700
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEMETRA THEOFANOUS (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON KARMAZIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES GERHARDT (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- LAURENCE SIBRACK (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEMETRA THEOFANOUS (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON KARMAZIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN SOLON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To further the development and appreciation of art made from glass through informing collectors, critics and curators of current happenings; encouraging and supporting museum exhibitions, university glass departments, specialized teaching programs, regional collector
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization runs annual educational trips for members which focus on contemporary glass art, visiting a new destination each year. It also conducts virtual, educational programming weekly, for both members and the public. The organization provides scholarships annually for students to participate in courses at 501(c)(3) institutions. It also provides grants annually, to support education and the visibility of the glass arts at museums and other 501(c(3)) venues. This support underwrites exhibitions, artist development through residencies, and other community programming. The organization also provides two monetary awards annually to nonprofit institutions that champion the glass arts and serve the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 9.5%; rating input score 9; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $279K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 20 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.