Artsnys
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371895350
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Troy, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154091161
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,831
- Expenses
- $147,539
- Assets
- $269,390
- Liabilities
- $243,522
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Butler (Co- President)
- Jennifer Swan-Kilpatrick (Co-President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen Butler (Co- President)
- Jennifer Swan-Kilpatrick (Co-President)
- Kieran Johnson (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
ArtsNYS leads state-wide efforts to advance the arts throughout New York State by: Serving as a coordinating and convening agency for a broad range of arts service groups; Leading efforts to promote the arts and to educate the public about the impact of the arts to the lives of individuals, communities, education, health and well-being, and economic development; Sharpening the skills and knowledge of arts administrators and nurturing the next generation of arts leaders with professional development opportunities, seminars and convenings; Working to increase public funding for the arts and to build support for policies that strengthen the arts throughout New York State.
What it reported doing in 2025
Creative Economy Plan & Cultural Worker Support ArtsNYS advances statewide creative economy initiatives by providing regrants, convening partners, facilitating public engagement, conducting joint research, supporting focus groups and stakeholder interviews, and fostering collaboration through initiatives such as Voices for Creative New York. These efforts promote education, cross sector partnerships, and informed dialogue on issues affecting New York's creative sector.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 54.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 68.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $148K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.