Art Thing Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332259915
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Little Falls, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3476236936
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,565
- Expenses
- $62,199
- Assets
- $56,474
- Liabilities
- $14,108
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicholas Stagliano (Executive Director)
- Vartan Poghosian (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Nicholas Stagliano (Executive Director)
- Carly Proulx (Director of Arts Education & Community Engagement)
- Erika Hoffman (Treasurer)
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
The Art Thing Collaborative, Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization that supports free, accessible, and participatory art experiences for the public. The organization develops and presents community-driven art programs, public art projects, and educational initiatives that bring people together through shared creative, collaborative, and cultural experiences. Programs include interactive visual arts events, public murals, community exhibitions, and arts-based gatherings designed to increase access to the arts, support local artists, and strengthen community connection.
What it reported doing in 2025
Positive Space (Community Exhibitions & Inclusive Art Spaces): Positive Space is a community-centered, participatory art exhibition program that creates inclusive, welcoming environments for public engagement through immersive visual art. The program features an all-ages installation in which large spheres transform shared spaces and invite participants to reflect on presence, interaction, and collective impact. By encouraging exploration and creative participation, Positive Space fosters connection, belonging, and understanding through accessible aesthetic experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.