Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911525518
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2063237190
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,373
Expenses
$20,804
Assets
$51,427
Liabilities
$4,767

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Douglas Hildie (Vice President)
  • Joan Rabinowitz (President)

People named in this filing

  • Douglas Hildie (Vice President)
  • Karen Johnson (Secretary)
  • Joan Rabinowitz (President)

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

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences' mission is to serve the blind and visually impaired residents of Washington state with access to arts events and to develop creative opportunities for blind and visually impaired people. AVIA provides access services for the arts, implements programs that involve visually impaired people in the creation of art, and operates information systems that reach visually impaired people.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Blind Youth Audio Project: For the 27th year of this audio program for youth, AVIA and Jack Straw Cultural Center provided training and small group experiences with creative audio techniques including performances in music and radio theater acting, voice training, recording, mixing, editing, and production. High school students from throughout Washington State worked with artists to create, perform, and record radio drama and music on themes, challenges, and common misconceptions of blindness. Services also included orientation training on blind issues for staff, artists, and interns. AVIA and Jack Straw also began a new poetry and song program for elementary school age blind students. Teaching artists from our Blind Youth summer program and a former Blind Youth student worked with the students

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77

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: 39.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.