Blue Dart Art

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862265244
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cassopolis, MI, USA
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,595
Expenses
$2,554
Assets
$204

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Sharron Ott (Director Treasurer)
  • Rebecca Powell (Assistant Director)
  • Janice Harpole (Assistant 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

Blue Dart Art assists communities that are under served in the arts through education programs murals and group projects. They hold lectures and exhibitions at various public locations bringing culture to a public in a rural area that has little other chance of exposure to art. By structuring some of their projects as community events that involve youth adults and elders they build upon overall knowledge and enlightenment within the populations that they serve. Some projects are attended to by skilled craftspeople providing work for the local talent and demonstrating their abilities.The groups goal is to uplift the surrounding community using art to shoot for the stars.

What it reported doing in 2025

Story Sketching involves studying classic novels by painting characters and scenes. The artwork is compiled into a video premiered in collaboration with the Dowagiac Public Library and the Mason Union Branch of the Cass County Library. Novels studied and sketched include The Hobbit A Christmas Carol Write your Own Fairy Tale, and English Fairy Tales.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • 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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.