Artslafayette

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453515102
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Lafayette, CO, USA
Phone
3038171374
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,169
Expenses
$71,513
Assets
$85,247

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVE FODEL (PRESIDENT)
  • LUIS GARCIA (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DAVE FODEL (PRESIDENT)
  • LUIS GARCIA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ANDREW REAGAN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Arts! Lafayette encourages public interest in lafayette cultural arts, activities, services, programs and facilities and encourages gifts, endowments and bequests for the cultural arts

What it reported doing in 2025

Art night out is a collaboration between the city of lafayettearts! Lafayette, lafayette urban renewal authority, and many lafayette business.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.