Art Feeds Carthage

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472908726
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2016
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Carthage, MO, USA
Phone
4174838454
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,968
Expenses
$159,396
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRYAN SHALLENBURGER (President)
  • TERI CRUSA (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CHELSEA CONLEY (Director)
  • BRYAN SHALLENBURGER (President)
  • NICOLE CARLTON (Secretary)

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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Art feeds carthage exists to mobilize creative healing and encourage creative development in children. We are a mobile arts center and community of individuals dedicated to the growth and healing of children through art. Art feeds carthage is based out of carthage, mo and conducts mobile programs with schools and after school programs on a consistent basis with elementary students who have undergone trauma and overcome obstacles in carthage, Missouri. The programs use therapeutic art and creative education that comes free of cost to the participating students and schools.

What it reported doing in 2016

These expenses were incurred when providing weekly therapeutic art and creative education programs to children in carthage, mo. Art feeds carthage provides students in the program with an art pack containing all the basic materials needed for creation (glue, scissors, a sketchbook, watercolors, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and colored pencils). Art feeds carthage also provides material specific to each weekly lesson; students may be dancing, drawing, sculpting, or acting and art feeds carthage is prepared with additional materials. This expense category also contains travel, volunteer, community outreach, and other expenses that relate directly to providing therapeutic art and creative education to the students in art feeds carthage's programs.

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
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 4
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -134.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.