Art Feeds Joplin

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472251699
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2016
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Joplin, MO, USA
Phone
4176262323
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$35,745
Expenses
$63,851
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTINA WILLIAMS (President)
  • JANE CAGE (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • ASHLEY LE BLANC (Director)
  • CHRISTINA WILLIAMS (President)
  • KATY COOK (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 joplin 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 joplin is based out of joplin, 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 joplin, 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 creativeeducation programs to children in joplin, mo. Art feeds joplin providesstudents in the program with an art pack containing all the basic materials neededfor creation (glue, scissors, a sketchbook, watercolors, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and colored pencils). Art feeds joplin also provides material specific to each weekly lesson; students may be dancing, drawing, sculpting, or acting and art feeds joplin 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 joplin'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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 4
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 52

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: -78.6%; rating input score 8; 8th 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: 44.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -96.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -114.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed · 51.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.