Calumet Art Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270222702
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Calumet, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9069342228
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,291
- Expenses
- $35,647
- Assets
- $50,670
- Liabilities
- $1,051
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sandy VanPatten (President)
- Melissa Goulette (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sandy VanPatten (President)
- Melissa Goulette (Vice President)
- Peggy Waara (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
To create a safe learning environment where art, culture and history inspire and challenge the people of the Keweenaw.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Calumet Art Center provides a variety of art education opportunities for children and adults in the community. It also hosts a permanent exhibition space, a performance space and work space for local artists. On-site equipment available for use by artists includes (3) two and four-harness looms, (2) kilns, (1) clay slab roller (2) pottery wheels, and torches for glass beads. The performance space hosts a grand piano which was donated to the center and the building's original pipe organ built in 1907 and has since been remodeled to include additional classroom space and artist studio space. The downstairs gallery has regular full and complete overhauls, making it a much more attractive and welcoming space. Several more consignees have been added to the gallery. Classes offered included a strong historical and cultural background of the art forms. Classes include a strong historical and cultural background of the art form. These included broom making, watercolor painting, leather working, beading, weaving and more. The Center hosted many events that were open to the community including regional artist exhibits, an art auction, an orphan art sale, concerts and space for local community groups to meet such as the Calumet Hat's for Hope group. The center also provides studio space for a working artist. The Center served over 6,000 artists and community members with the above programs and offerings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.