Art on the Square
Legal name: Art on the Square Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383674610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Belleville, IL, United States
- Phone
- 6182571772
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $346,524
- Expenses
- $289,163
- Assets
- $525,195
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL BARTLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROL BARTLE (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE DORRIS (BOARD MEMBER (TERM END))
- JENNIFER GAIN MEYER (BOARD MEMBER (TERM END))
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Proceeds from the Art on the Square festival are used to promote the arts in southwestern Illinois and to support individual programs and community outreach through the Art on the Square Foundation. Our Mission:** To present a world-class juried fine arts festival that celebrates artistic excellence, supports artists through sales, awards, and hospitality, and advances arts education and appreciation in southwestern Illinois through community programs, outreach, and nonprofit stewardship. Pet Free Zone! Art on the Square Belleville, IL. The Art on the Square Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization led by an all-volunteer executive board, committee and hundreds of community volunteers who work to make the show a success. Proceeds from the fair are used to promote the arts in southwestern Illinois and to support individual programs and community outreach sponsored by the Art...
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual festival held during the second weekend of may. The annual festival provided art awareness to the community, a childrens art fair, and attracted many quality artists into the area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $40 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $252K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.