Calistoga Art Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680551603
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Calistoga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7079422278
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $207,586
- Expenses
- $174,390
- Assets
- $158,896
- Liabilities
- $2,354
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAUREEN O'NEILL (Vice President)
- BABETTE PINSKY (President)
- JENNIFER FILIPELLI (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- ANNA JOHANSSON (Administrator): $62,797 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote Art & Art Education
What it reported doing in 2025
The Calistoga Art Center provides educational and professional training in arts and crafts; direct services in the arts to the community; and after school art programs. Paid to art instructors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.4%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 46
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.4% of revenue deployed · 45.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 38/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.