Art Works Projects

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
711049669
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3126490025
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,647
Expenses
$238,270
Assets
$123,535
Liabilities
$10,702

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • SHANNON P BARTLETT (TREASURER)
  • HOWARD CONANT (DIRECTOR)
  • SHERWIN BRYANT (DIRECTOR)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Art work projects' mission is to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights issues.

What it reported doing in 2024

Art works projects saw an immense growth of our research practice as a leader in trauma-informed storytelling and were invited to present our work in a number of conferences, workshops, and symposiums, including as a featured partner at the annual movies that matter international film festival in the hague, netherlands in march 2024. Thanks to the understood value of this field of work, we received a collaborative grant from the simmons center for global chicago to continue to advance our fieldwork and development of literature in care-centered storytelling practices in the international development space.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -139.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $169K 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: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.