Arts Mid-hudson Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 146035153
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8454543222
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,419,561
- Expenses
- $1,355,735
- Assets
- $652,654
- Liabilities
- $135,889
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MELISSA DVOZENJA-THOMAS (EXECUTIVE DI): $122,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of arts mid-hudson is to provide vision and leadership to support thriving and diverse arts in the mid-hudson valley.
What it reported doing in 2025
Outreach & education: community education and public awareness; publications supported such as artscene; periodical columns in publications such the enjoy section of the poughkeepsie journal; informational monthly e-newsletter and social media including website, facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube; and informational meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 22 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.