Art That Serves Inc C/o L&l Holding Company Llc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823375144
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129203383
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,603
- Expenses
- $12,469
- Assets
- $83,247
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW B LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSH HERMAN (TREASURER)
- WILLIAM HAYDEN (DIRECTOR & SECRETARY)
- MATTHEW B LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
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
Bring hope, inspiration, and new perspectives to underserved populations through musical performances. Raise awareness and destigmatize specific underserved populations.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, art that serves continued to produce performances of 'reckless son', a show composed of both music and spoken word monologues that gives voice to the stories of incarcerated individuals, helping to destigmatize them and humanize their experience. 'reckless son' was presented in multiple correctional facilities including both allen oakwood correctional facility and mansfield correctional facility in Ohio, clallam bay corrections center and clallam county juvenile detention in Washington, and the ascension parish jail in Louisiana serving over 400 incarcerated individuals. The show was also performed for the public in multiple venues including senior centers, high schools including the salisbury school in Connecticut and multiple schools across the ascension parish public school district in Louisiana , colleges and universities including the university of akron and loyola college of new orleans, and provided public education to hundreds of individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 47.6%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.68; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -25.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 47.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.