Boulder Mountain Clayworks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352287763
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Ketchum, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2087264484
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $224,816
- Expenses
- $213,960
- Assets
- $242,464
- Liabilities
- $6,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DIANE WALKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAMIE BENNETT (DIRECTOR)
- MARY ANN CHUBB (VICE PRESIDE)
- SUSAN CONNER (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's objectives are to encourage artistic growth and development in the community by 1. Offering instruction in clay and other media to adults and children. 2. Providing a creative atmosphere where clay artists can develop their vision. 3. Scheduling events that are free and open to the public where the community can better appreciate the clay arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Boulder mountain clayworks offers clay art instruction for adults and children, both residents of and visitors to the wood river valley. We provide a creative atmosphere and facilities where clay artists can develop their vision, and we bring projects to and collaborate with other local non-profits to foster arts education among their constituencies. In 2024 we had 60 full-time and 20 part-time members who pursue their own projects, collaborate with others, and generally work side-by-side in the studio and provide know-how, inspiration, and assistance to other members in the process. We provide them with a huge range of large and small equipment, supplies, tools, workspaces, and materials with which to create their very messy clay art. Among the resources we provide, boulder mountain clayworks houses and operates the only cone 10 kiln in the wood river valley, which fires at the heat required to produce the highest quality, impermeable stoneware. In 2024, boulder mountain clayworks' summer programs served 82 children in our 7 youth clay camps, 45 middle and high school students in our 5 teen throwing camps and 30 in our family one day workshops. During the school year, we taught adult wheel-throwing classes for 50 students, 34 sculpture and handbuilding classes for a total of 40 adults, and had 85 students in children's clay classes. Our studio also opens its doors to children and adults for other non profit partnerships for clay experience events. In 2024, we brought projects to some of the underserved communities in bellevue, hailey and carey through the bloom program.we had the sage school come and participate in "bowl making" for the empty bowl fundraiser for the blaine county charitable fund. We have provided little to no cost clay classes to syringa mountain school, trinity school, girl scouts of america, pioneer montessori school, wood river high school, sun valley community school, higher ground and Idaho school for the deaf and blind.we also offer team building exercises to corporations geared toward employee wellness. Boulder mountain clayworks, its members, and volunteers directly touch the lives of more than 450 people in the wood river valley, and, by ripple effect we touch the lives of many more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $208K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.