Art Therapy Express Program Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200573336
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Hockessin, DE, USA
Phone
3025844068
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$27,595
Expenses
$52,153
Assets
$13,610
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LEJAN CASTRO (PRESIDENT)
  • BEN SZMIDT (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LISA BARTOLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JANICE TUNELL (TREASURER)
  • LEJAN CASTRO (PRESIDENT)
  • ANTOINETTE DAVIS (BOARD 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 provide art therapy, art education, and expressive arts (music, creative movement, and drama) to children and adults with mild to severe physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Art therapy programs were provided to over 1,000 children and adults with physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities within public and private schools, nonprofit organizations, and within the community. Participants utilize adaptive technology to successfully create art. The programs include special event large mural painting with wheelchairs, day and evening weekly expressive arts sessions, and a mobile outreach program for schools and nonprofit organizations. Programs are also provided within the adapted art studio for special education school programs, nonprofit organizations and children and adults within the community with mild to severe multiple disabilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -89%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — 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 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.