Assoc of Historians of American Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680547795
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8186910060
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,305
- Expenses
- $22,056
- Assets
- $76,590
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- MINDY BESAW (Chairman)
- EMILY CASEY (Chairman)
- RUTHIE DIBBLE (Chairman)
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
The association of historians of american art ahaa is a membership organization. Ahaa fulfills its mission of promoting scholarship on art of the united states from the european encounter with native peoples to contemporary practice through several means. The organzation provides a forum for presenting and advancing new approaches to the subject for examining problems that confront the field and for identifying scholarly needs and opportunties to its members. Ahaa fulfills these goals through its annual meeting and periodic symposia, along with its online journal panorama, e-nnewsletter, and website.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2023, ahaa suppoerted its membership by hosting a panel at the caaconference, hosting a symposium at crystal bridges for the field, provided grant support for travel, and maintained an open-access and per-reviewed online journal called panorama (journalpanorama.org) to support the advancement of scholarship in american art.
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
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 34
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 77; 77th 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: -32.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -33.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32% of revenue deployed · 33.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.