Boulder Arts Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464588018
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Boulder, UT, USA
Phone
4356167379
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,377
Expenses
$43,966
Assets
$162,794

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHERYL COX (President)
  • ELIZABETH JULIAN (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CHERYL COX (President)
  • ELIZABETH JULIAN (Vice President)
  • TINA KARLSSON (Secretary)

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

Boulder Arts Council generates funds through grants, donations, and registration fees to provide arts activities and events to Boulder community members and visitors.

What it reported doing in 2025

2025 was a great year for the Boulder Arts Council and the Boulder, Utah residents who participated. Each year we provide the community with great music during the summer with Music in the Park. All events are free to the public. 2025 included Indigenous, reggae band, Innastate. We also had rocking country with Paige and the Overtones out of Las Vegas and Triggers and Slips from Salt Lake City. Other performances included SB Dance whose performance was moved to our firehouse due to rainy weather and Torrey Chamber Music Festival which includes musicians from across the country. Our Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference and community readings were a success with the current Utah Poet Laureate, Lisa Bickmore and the first Utah Poet Laureate, David Lee, and Jon Lee, poet from Boston, Massachusettes. There were many great workshops including wreathmaking, Thai cooking, and a Creative Aging series of decorative book making. We sponsored a winter community storytelling event where residents shared stories around a particular theme from December to March. There was a year of gallery exhibits featuring both local artists and traveling exhibits. We also granted $2,500 to two local artists in the launch of our first annual Artists Grant competition. We also commissioned, installed and dedicated a new sculpture placed at the Boulder Community Center called Hands which is a rock with carved handprints of local residents. It was a year with diverse arts events and activities to entertain and inspire our local residents and visitors to our community. We were rewarded with great donors who have helped to make these activities happen through their financial support.

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 88% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.7; rating input score 79; 79th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.