Arts Evangelica Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561899173
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3362150593
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,186
- Expenses
- $119,506
- Assets
- $3,605
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lisa A Kidd (Pres/Founder/Pastor/Teacher/Director)
- F Grady Kidd Jr (VP/Secy.)
- Karen Kidd (Teacher)
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
Arts Evangelica's mission is to change lives through dance worship. Our goal is to teach children to draw near to God as a part of their dance training. Our students progress from beginners to pre-professionals, studying Classical Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, voice, music and drama in a Christian environment of excellence. Many of our students have received Scholarships to colleges and universities as a result of their training at our school. The Arts Evangelica Dance Company provides an opportunity for the most accomplished students of the school to perform in a variety of venues for the purpose of inspiring audiences to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. We encourage our students to be diamond dancers who are reflections of Jesus Christ and to pursue the Arts to spread the Gospel worldwide.
What it reported doing in 2025
Students progress from beginners to pre-professionals studying Classical Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Contemporary, Voice, Music and Drama in a Christian environment of excellence. We teach regularly scheduled classes for students age 3 to adult Mon-Thur; 34 students; the Arts Evangelica Dance Company provides an opportunity for the most accomplished students to perform in a variety of venues for the purpose of inspiring audiences to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. This group ministers to Boys and Girls clubs, elderly homes and homeless shelters; we conduct outreach activities throughout our region of NC and abroad. Our focus is creativity and inner healing through the Arts with emphasis on classical ballet as a form of Worship. In 2025 Arts Evangelica served persons in the community at 2024 Performances - Mindanao Philippines 300, Barber Park Recital 350 Total 650
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 5
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: -7.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5% of revenue deployed · 4.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 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 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.