Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264540409
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Clemson, SC, USA
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,967
- Expenses
- $151,432
- Assets
- $165,709
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifger Doyle (President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifger Doyle (President)
- Omari Weekes (Secretary)
- Alma Ruiz (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
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present is an international nonprofit association dedicated to discovering and articulating the aesthetic cultural ethical dimensions of the contemporary arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present ASAP 16 brought more than 500 scholars and artists from across the world to explore the roles of contemporary art and literature in our politically and ecologically fraught present. We partnered with a dozen cultural institutions in Houston including Project Row Houses the Museum of Fine Arts Houston the Contemporary Art Museum Houston to create a locally engaged program that holistically introduced our audience members from around the world to the art and writing cultures we have here. Through community partnerships and curated sessions pairing artists and scholars we developed interdisciplinary conversation exploring the affordances and limitations of contemporary art amidst the overlapping political and ecological crises of the present. At the core was also a Gulf Coast Artist Showcase featuring 13 local artists giving in-depth artist talks ...continued on Schedule O
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
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: -35.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.