California Art Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941663056
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sierra Madre, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6262337879
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,059
- Expenses
- $93,278
- Assets
- $437,169
- Liabilities
- $66
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Pilhoefer (President)
- Alisha Mernick (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Anna Pilhoefer (President)
- Alisha Mernick (President-Elect)
- Anthony Dahl (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote Art Appreciation in Students
What it reported doing in 2024
CAEA strengthens visual arts education through advocacy, leadership, and professional development, while supporting students with scholarships and hosting conferences for visual arts educators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.9%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.5%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.69; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.9% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.