Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222309669
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5854734000
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,250
- Expenses
- $89,178
- Assets
- $37,702
- Liabilities
- $124,219
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dawn F Lipson (Chair/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Bleu Cease (Vice Chair)
- Dawn F Lipson (Chair/Executive Director)
- John Riley (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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide support services to the arts and promote cultural activities.
What it reported doing in 2019
Grant Programs - The Organization obtained funding from Rochester Area Community Foundation on the Arts to offer competitive grant programs to organizations and individuals for arts-related projects: Capacity Building Grants - A funding program for not-for-profit cultural organizations that supports projects enhancing operations, infrastructure, and long-term capacity. Website - As part of the move to the new office space, the computer systems were upgraded, the databases were purged and the communication abilities were increased. The new website should be operational by the middle of 2020. The new database will have easier access to the events calendar, non-static display modules and accurate and relevant information that impacts the arts and culture in our community of artists, organizations, patrons and donors. The Strategy - Moving forward, the Organization has listened to the community and have diversified services. The Organization has partnered with the Rochester Area Community Foundation to address the issue of equity in participation in the arts and culture, particularly the issue of accessibility for our underserved populations. The Organization has hosted meetings that provide space and opportunity for dialogue. These meetings ranged in size from over 100 participants to smaller groups. The Organization changed office space in 2019. The new space is in the same building in the neighborhood of the arts. This move allowed improvements in operational efficiencies and increased the Organization's ability to provide this meeting space for our partners and subscribers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
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: -20.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.29; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 to 2019
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.