Blixt Locally Grown
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831198339
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4028178176
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,288
- Expenses
- $55,320
- Assets
- $5,558
- Liabilities
- $1,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEWAYNE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MAX ANTOINE (MEMBER AT LA)
- SHELBY BAUER (SECRETARY)
- AYNDREA CANNON (MEMBER AT LA)
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
Blixt locally grown, grows goodness with the arts. We specialize in community building, education and engagement, and the stimulation of economic development through the integration of local arts and culture into all facets of life. We collaborate with communities to lift up hometown assets, and champion creatives as vital contributors and leaders in vibrant rural spaces. In our work, we explore important issues in society that may not be easy to discuss. We use the arts as a conduit for having conversations about these issues, and we strive to include the voices that are often unheard, including young people, senior citizens, rural populations, and those experiencing poverty, grief, or isolation. We collaborate and co-produce with experts to ensure that our artistic works are accurate, authentic, inclusive, and that further resources are provided to participants. Issues include: covid-19, poverty (including hunger and lack of warmth), death and grief, returning to one's home, sense of
What it reported doing in 2024
Current programs include: homegrown theatre camp: virtual theatre camps are set up to give students at home the ability to put on their own play for their family or friends. The camps are entirely free, and available to students of any age. Captain soapman: this resource for children and families is available for free on youtube, with accompanying social-emotional curriculum on the blixt locally grown website. The dream switch, in collaboration with Nebraska community foundation (ncf): we are working on virtual and socially distanced engagement activities alongside our partner communities. Goodnesstories: this is a virtual service that can be purchased by anyone to commemorate a special milestone, such as a birthday, anniversary, or graduation. The service includes an interview, a verbatim transcript and a personalized piece of word art. Project based learning: we completed project-based learning clubs for community learning centers at four lps middle schools during 2024. We also manage an annual blanket drive, which runs from october to february. We provide new or homemade blankets to students and their families in our five partner schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 67.2%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 67.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.