Arts For The Schools Dba Fox Cultural Hall
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880203873
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kings Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5305828278
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $248,663
- Expenses
- $317,973
- Assets
- $506,350
- Liabilities
- $61,679
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Jewett (President)
People named in this filing
- John Jewett (President)
- Andrew Cross (Treasurer)
- Laura Homen (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Inspire, teach and build our rural communities through equitable access to the arts and arts education. We provide arts programs for schools and the public in both California and Nevada. Fox Cultural Hall is a 325-person capacity performance and event space located in North Lake Tahoe. The hall will allow us to greatly expand our arts programs and offerings including live performances, master classes, workshops, teen clubs, and arts classes to our rural communities and schools. Arts For The Schools DBA Fox Cultural Hall now offers seven non-profit programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program Service AccomplishmentsArts For The Schools provides standards-based visual and performing arts programming to students in grades TK12 across California and Nevada.Assemblies and Performances: The organization presents in-school assemblies featuring professional musicians, dancers, and cultural artists. Programs introduce students to diverse artistic traditions while supporting curriculum integration and social-emotional development.Masterclasses and Artist Residencies: Professional artists work directly with middle and high school students through rehearsals, coaching, and collaborative performance experiences aligned with state arts standards.Before- and After-School Enrichment: Extended learning programs, including string instruction, guitar, and visual arts, provide ongoing skill development and creative engagement for students in grades 112.In-School Visual Arts Instruction: Weekly visual arts classes are delivered by professional artists and credentialed instructors. Curriculum aligns with California and Nevada Visual Arts Content Standards and integrates interdisciplinary learning across science, math, social studies, and SEL.Workshops and Community Arts Programs: Hands-on workshops in traditional and contemporary art forms serve students and community members of all ages, fostering intergenerational learning and cultural exchange.Public Art and Murals: Community-based mural projects engage youth, elders, and professional artists to create site-specific public artworks that reflect regional heritage and strengthen community identity.Place-Based Arts Education Musical Field Journal Initiative: A multidisciplinary program integrating Earth science, ecology, language arts, and the visual and performing arts through original music commissions, illustrated songbooks, and classroom programming that promotes environmental stewardship and social-emotional learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $262K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.