Art Inspiring Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474533432
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Encinitas, CA, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,453
- Expenses
- $35,098
- Assets
- $29,547
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jody Kay Crimi (Chief Executive Officer)
People named in this filing
- Jody Kay Crimi (Chief Executive Officer)
- Douglas Alan Schuling (Chief Financial Officer)
- Niles R Sharif (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To nurture healing and provide charitable assistance to those in need and increase community awareness of social issues via various forms of art.
What it reported doing in 2025
Holistically addressing the many unmet needs of the San Diego Syrian refugee community with a focus on women and teen girls. We aid in basic needs assistance trauma care acclimation and translation services to approximately 60 families which is approximately 30 percent of San Diegos Syrian refugee population.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
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: 6.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.