Arts Are Elementary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010439829
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Brunswick, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077982900
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,921
- Expenses
- $29,556
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lauren Dumont (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Lauren Dumont (Executive Director)
- Jennifer Lyford (Chair)
- Cristina Ustaris (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
To spark curiosity, creativity and critical thinking through arts integration in all Brunswick, ME Pre-K - 5 classrooms and raise awareness of the arts in the local community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide each Brunswick, ME Pre-K - 5 classrooms with its own visiting artist who enhances the classroom experience and curriculum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
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: -34.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.