Arts Academy of Sedona

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
845038122
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sedona, AZ, USA
Phone
8607052163
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$39,126
Expenses
$24,632
Assets
$7,915
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Camilla Ross (President)
  • Karen Loomis (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Camilla Ross (President)
  • Karen Loomis (Vice President)
  • Winnie Muench (Secretary)

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

Arts Academy of Sedona mission is to promote the arts and arts education in the greater Sedona region in all forms of art and will: Represent dedicated professional artists across the artistic disciplines. Provide a nurturing and learning environment. Insure that participants excel with their own personal goals. Offer specialized learning centered activities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Arts Academy of Sedona promoted the arts and arts education in the greater Sedona region in all forms of art and represented dedicated professional artists across the artistic disciplines. Provided a nurturing and learning environment. Insured that participants excel with their own personal goals. Offer specialized learning centered activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% 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

MIXED - 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: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 17

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: 37%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -48.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11% of revenue deployed · 17.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 11/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.