Arts Refreshing the Soul

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274213031
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2021
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Palatine, IL, USA
Phone
8475254043
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,229
Expenses
$60,658
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DONNA GREENE (PRESIDENT)
  • JULIE SLEZAK (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KIM STADLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • DONNA GREENE (PRESIDENT)
  • ANN LENZ (SECRETARY)
  • PAULA STANG (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Arts refreshing the soul (a.r.t.s.) uses the arts as a tool to raise the academic, social and emotional potential of at risk women, children and youth.

What it reported doing in 2021

Form 990-ez, part iii, statement of program service accomplishments: the "moms and young childx and "at-risk preschool" programs incorporate music, dance, visual arts, and imaginative play-acting into a 1.5 hour lesson each week. The music curriculum is a standards-based, research supported curriculum that incorporates age-appropriate school readiness skills, pre-literacy skills, and music foundations from kindermusik international. The art curriculum consists of complimentary age-appropriate art projects that include exposure to many different mediums using cultural, seasonal, and thematic ideas for inspiration. Repetition is built into our lesson format to help young children with routine and behavior expectations, but the specific activities within each component of the lessons are changed every week. Our "youth programs" include junior high after school and teen moms group drumming experiences. Youth engage in 1 hour group drumming experiences to promote self-care through creative expression. Group drumming has been shown to help with depression, anxiety, and stress relief and to empower youth to connect to themselves and others in their community. New in 2019 is an added art experiences component to our teen programming. In addition to our group-drumming programming, teens will now also be able to engage in self expression, creative problem solving and emotional release through various art projects designed to help connect teens to oneself.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 2
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,778.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2021
  • 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 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.