Arts Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473878533
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Anthony, KS, USA
- Phone
- 6203227009
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,610
- Expenses
- $73,512
- Assets
- $85,746
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kasey Waldschmidt (Board President)
- Ami DeLacerda (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Juliana Whisman (Director)
- Kasey Waldschmidt (Board President)
- Ami DeLacerda (Board Vice 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Arts Center is to provide education and exposure to the arts to the entire community by providing a physical space and classes that teach and inspire creativity Our goals are to --make arts education and instruction accessible to all in Harper County --provide a safe empowering place for students of all ages abilities to explore their creativity through the arts and focus on the process of creating --connect people by providing arts events that cultivate a love for creativity and build community --bring further value to Harper County through cultural enrichment and a program that would be considered an asset for families currently living here and those considering moving into the area The primary services of the The Arts Center include the school visual art program visiting local elementary schools and providing visual arts programming childrens creative programming community theatre and arts enrichment classes and adult arts programming
What it reported doing in 2025
The Childrens Community Theatre Program is the most significant program for the Arts Center In 2025 this included 3 performances of The Lion King Jr with a cast of 38 students in 4th through 12th grades The performances included one for local elementary school students with an estimate of 350 in attendance and two public performances with 900 total in attendance The programs objective is to provide a quality performing arts experience locally for both theatre-makers and audience members Beyond that the goal of the program is to provide students with experience in the performing arts growing creativity and personal expression as well as building their soft skills For audiences the goal is to provide local arts culture for entertainment and enrichment adding to their quality of life in rural Kansas
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.2%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 14%; rating input score 14
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: -23.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.2% of revenue deployed · 14% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.