Buchanan Art Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201218119
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Buchanan, MI, USA
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Art Museums

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,752
Expenses
$158,695
Assets
$481,685
Liabilities
$1,783

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DIANE PIKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MARY LISTER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DIANE PIKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • GINA NURENBURG (DIRECTOR)
  • APRIL JONATZKE (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

Provide community place dedicated to art

What it reported doing in 2025

Consignment gift shop on premise offers sale opportunities for artists with a core group of 30 represented.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.