Arts Without Boundaries Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364702281
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Billings, MT, USA
Phone
4062945677
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,525
Expenses
$17,626
Assets
$27,311

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Codie Wahrman (President)
  • Amy Schendel (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Codie Wahrman (President)
  • Amy Schendel (Vice President)
  • Roxanne Jeppesen (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 Without Boundaries (AWB) facilitates workshops, community concerts, and lessons by performing and visual artists. Artists enlisted by the Foundation are professional performers and educators. AWB has initiated an ambitious plan to enhance artistic opportunities for Billings area students within the classroom and beyond. All students with an interest in the arts are supported and encouraged to participate. Classroom instruction, while vital, is not sufficient by itself - additional individual and small group instruction is necessary. AWB, in partnership with teachers and students, facilitates and funds classroom and after school instruction. A core principle of AWB is that access to the arts should be available to all students with an interest.

What it reported doing in 2024

After school master class program: The goal of the after school program is to augment existing school programs and to enhance the experience of students. Billings currently has many talented music teachers giving one-on-one private lessons in their specialty area. This program is intended to place a much larger percentage of music students in front of these teachers. In these master classes, professional instructors of an instrument teach a group of students playing similar instruments. Students are able to discuss and play skills specific to that instrument. Also, during these sessions, students are divided into small mixed ensembles ranging from 5 to 15 members. The same group of professional instructors will be working with the ensembles. The ensembles concentrate on tone, blend, balance, intonation, phrasing, and many other concepts that are stressed in their school band or orchestra classes. Working in a much smaller setting affords the opportunity to delve into more detail than is possible in a classroom. Instruction is funded by AWB providing access for all area music students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.

The verdict

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -170.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.