Atelier 17 Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991028494
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
9177105005
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,215
Expenses
$30,116
Assets
$47,945
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christina Weyl (Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Christina Weyl (Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer)
  • Ann Shafer (Director and Secretary)
  • Michelle Donnelly (Director)

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

To promote knowledge and scholarship regarding works created by artists who worked in or were influenced by Atelier 17 through a website, exhibitions, symposia, lectures, publications, and grants for the benefit of scholars and the general public.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, the organization advanced research and public education on Atelier 17 through several core programs. It supported a major scholarly publication project on Atelier 17's history and centennial, including development of a multi-author book to be published by Skira. It also carried out an oral history project, recording, editing, and transcribing interviews with fifteen former members of Atelier 17 in order to preserve their experiences of the studio for future researchers. In addition, the organization continued to expand and improve its roster of artists associated with Atelier 17 by migrating the database to Airtable and transcribing a newly identified roster book at Tate Archives, making the data more accessible and useful to scholars and the general public. The organization also maintained its website and public outreach efforts to share research and encourage participation in these initiatives.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 57.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 43/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.