Atlanta Artist Relief Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851997309
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Decatur, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6124193760
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,857
- Expenses
- $43,242
- Assets
- $8,615
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mary Bridget McCarthy (Executive Dir.)
- Jayson Waddell (Director)
- Robert Mitchell Owenby (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our grassroots organization, which started March 12th of 2020 exploded nearly overnight. After just a week of making meals in our kitchens for artists out of work, over 400 artists had requested food, in addition for requests for help meeting other basic needs. Though this narrative varied, but through line was common: the basic needs (like rent, medical care, legal support, bills, mental health care, and so much more) of these artists were falling through the cracks. We engaged professional social workers to help create a program that was flexible and responsive. Since March 12th, we have supported over 1,600 artists and we are not slowing down.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -94.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -75.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.