Association of Rhode Island Authors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461776587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- North Kingstown, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4012944811
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,390
- Expenses
- $35,098
- Assets
- $9,635
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TABITHA LORD JORGENSEN (Vice President)
- J MICHAEL SQUATRITO JR (President)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN DUARTE (Director)
- GUY NATELLI (Treasurer)
- DEBRA ZANNELLI (Secretary)
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 purpose of this corporation is to be an organization of local, published writers of both fiction and non-fiction committed to raising awareness of the outstanding written works crafted by authors in Rhode Island and other nearby communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Establishing and attending events providing author presentations, readings and workshops.
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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.