Black Hills Studios of the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842827958
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6057911841
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,458
- Expenses
- $174,903
- Assets
- $4,600
- Liabilities
- $121,526
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GERRIT SCHEEPERS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MALLORY DEKKER (EXECUTIVE DI)
- GERRIT SCHEEPERS (PRESIDENT)
- TANYA HARROD (VICE PRESIDE)
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 organization focuses on bringing inspiring music and art education to the community of the black hills of South Dakota and beyond. The vision is that one day, children and adults alike will have the opportunity to have a quality music and art education.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization offers tradtional and contemporary teaching methods in their quest to provide students of all ages the finest music and art education at the lowest price to allow accessibility to music and art education for anyone who wishes to learn. The organization provides these lessons to over a hundred students annually who would not have received lessons otherwise.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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 and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 26.42; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.