Artascope Studios
Legal name: Bickford Education Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471129512
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Yarmouth, ME, United States
- Phone
- 207-847-4060
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,506
- Expenses
- $129,758
- Assets
- $14,209
- Liabilities
- $29,944
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARILYN BICKFORD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALICE MELLIN (BOARD MEMBER)
- REBECCA LAFLAM (BOARD MEMBER)
- PAMELA DELPHENICH (BOARD MEMBER)
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 organization with an assumed name of "artascope" was formed to strenghten the fabric of the local community by offering guidance, inspiration, support, space, place & community to individual artists, makers and arts organizations. Artascope seeks to connect older citizens with the broader community by offering educational opportunities in the arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
"artascope" strenghtens the fabric of the local community by offering guidance, inspiration, support, space, place & community to individual artists, makers and arts organizations. Artascope seeks to connect older citizens with the broader community by offering educational opportunities in the arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.11; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 52.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.