Art and Resistance Through Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814884105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3474935081
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,743
- Expenses
- $37,685
- Assets
- $56,497
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marissa Gutierrez (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Marissa Gutierrez (Executive Director)
- Oriana Seastone (Board Member)
- Carmela Muzio Dormani (Board Member)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Formed as an education organization to benefit the public interest by conducting educational activities that help combat community deterioration, prejudice and discrimination. The organization will fulfill its purpose by bringing educational activities into schools, prisons, and community institutions. This includes developing and creating projects to build leadership, facilitate conversation, and address human rights issues impacting youth and community members.
What it reported doing in 2021
This past year, in a recurring partnership with Urban Assembly (UAMA), ARTE engaged high school students in a human rights programming using an arts-based curriculum to foster learning, civic engagement, and self-expression. The program provides participants with an opportunity to learn about various human rights issues-including racial discrimination, the right to housing and transportation, and climate justice-basic art techniques, and create meaningful pieces of art to advocate for positive social change. After pivoting to a digital platform for the fall and spring semesters, student artists have been able to harness their talents to further express themselves creatively, build collective leadership, and learn how to engage other members of the UAMA around the issues that are most important to them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.