Arts for All Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261589570
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125916108
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,235
- Expenses
- $231,933
- Assets
- $130,503
- Liabilities
- $1
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNA ROBERTS OSTROFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LISA DELLAGIARINO FERIEND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANNA ROBERTS OSTROFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LISA DELLAGIARINO FERIEND (PRESIDENT)
- KERRI D'AMBROSIO (TREASURER)
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 for all is a non-profit that offers accessible artistic opportunities to children in the New York city area who face socio-economic, physical or emotional barriers to exploring the arts. Through arts for all, professional artists work with youth organization to build self-confidence, self-expression, teamwork, resilience, and creativity in children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Workshops: arts for all provides artistic workshops in multiple art fields including: drama, dance, music, film/video art, visual arts as a part of our artistic residency program, and academic based art workshops through our literacy through the arts program. These workshops are provided to in-need youth of nyc. Workshops are currently free of charge, are taught by professional artists, taking place in the five boroughs of New York city. Our workshops are conducted year round in schools, community centers, and youth organizations. In addition to in-person programming, arts for all also has a virtual learning component. We have a virtual classroom with content on our website and youtube channel. This is an engaging online educational program that provides a wealth of arts-focused content. This includes a wide range of topics, from visual arts and music to dance and theater.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 67.2%; rating input score 67
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: -21.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 67.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.