ART FOR GROWTH INC Songs with Meaning

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
522110385
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Clinton, MD, USA
Phone
2403020700
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,858
Expenses
$7,426
Assets
$516
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Moriel Randolph (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Moriel Randolph (Executive Director)
  • Rhonda Freeman (Treasurer)
  • Soyieta Colliins (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Art for Growth is using its new Create Your World Institute to partner with nonprofits throughout the DMV and to provide direct services to younger generations. The goal is to come together to serve, inspire, and develop well-being and purposeful living in young people, primarily in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. It's our contribution to the mental health epidemic. We teach our project participants how to live purpose-filled lives, thus becoming the heroes of their own stories.

What it reported doing in 2025

Art for Growth's Create Your World (CYW) Institute has acquired the online AI film production services and training needed to teach CYW participants enrolled in its Young Producer Project to use AI for specific aspects of film production. We have also acquired the online Software and Administrative services to prepare for the Young Producer Project portion of what CYW offers. The online resources allow us to equip young participants with useful skills that can be applied in film and in other industries.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.4%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 27

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -48.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -37% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.4% of revenue deployed · 26.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.