Arts & Enrichment Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822104326
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lakewood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5625444287
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,037
- Expenses
- $25,125
- Assets
- $98,906
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Edward Booze (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Edward Booze (CEO)
- Shannon Penna (Development Director)
- Patricia Crews (Administrative Assistant)
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 provide arts programs, holistically develop all participants, and build community while maintaining a physically and emotionally safe environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
3 contractors lead 50 students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in adult transition programs in the Songwriters Workshop. The students wrote, recorded and sang at least 6 original songs. The students developed teamwork skills, built confidence, increased self-esteem, and a passion for composing songs. Original songs and music videos can be viewed on the Arts & Enrichment Academy YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@artsandenrichmentacademy
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.4%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 67%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.94; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 69.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.4% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.