Artistic Dreams International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452558520
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,385
- Expenses
- $199,721
- Assets
- $26,625
- Liabilities
- $2,293
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lillian Alonzo Marin (Executive Director Founder Trustee)
People named in this filing
- Lillian Alonzo Marin (Executive Director Founder Trustee)
- Raymond Happy (Trustee)
- Stephanie Meade (Trustee)
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
To nurture K-12 youth to become creative world citizens who can transform their lives and the communities they live in through the arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the year Artistic Dreams provided over 232 free workshops serving more than 300 students in New York City and completed three community murals in Harlem. Artistic Dreams carries out its mission through three main program services that integrate creativity education and community engagement. 1. Art and Mindfulness: This program offers in-school and after-school workshops that combine visual arts with mindfulness practices helping students build focus self-expression and emotional well-being through creative exercises. 2. Art and World Cultures: Through hands-on art projects inspired by global artistic traditions students explore cultural diversity art history and storytelling while developing respect and curiosity for the world around them. 3. Art and Civic Engagement: This program leads large-scale mural projects that reflect community identity and shared values. A professional teaching artist guides students in the foundations of muralism while they discuss and design the murals theme. The mural is completed by students and school community members and is unveiled through a special event. Together these programs empower young people to express themselves gain emotional well-being connect with others and make a positive impact through art. Programs happened in collaboration with seven schools four youth-serving partners and local community centers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
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: -1.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.