Canton Museum of Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340733127
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Canton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3304537666
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,622,466
- Expenses
- $1,664,384
- Assets
- $7,116,763
- Liabilities
- $554,516
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAX BARTON II (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DR PAUL TURGEON (President)
- MARK SPANER (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- MAX BARTON II (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $95,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through creative exhibitions, imaginative programs, and sharing american art and its stores through our collection, the museum is a cultural resource that engages, educates, entertains, and enriches our visitors and community. The canton museum of art (cma) is one of Ohio's premier art museums. Cma is recognized for powerful exhibitions focused on american art, its influences and themes that allow everyone to connect with creativity, american stories, and cultural heritage. Cma produces 12 to 14 exhibitions each year, featuring original productions curated by cma to showcase celebrated american artists and diverse regional and national talents, in partnership and collaboration with other museums and private collections; and themed exhibitions that make cma's collections come alive with stories. Cma's acclaimed collection, including names such as edward hopper, john singer sargent, alice schille, and toshiko takaezu, to name a few, focuses on american works on paper, primarily watercolo
What it reported doing in 2024
Education & outreach: education is integral to the cma experience, fueling creativity in minds of all ages. This includes our free museum to go program to stark county schools, which support students and educators through standards aligned art instruction; in-musuem group tours; and free family days throughout the year that engage the community and underserved audiences. Cma's education station allows a place where vistiors create and learn about art concepts featured in an exhibition. Education station activities change throughout the season and are focused on bringing children and families in greater connection to art and each other. Cma's school of art features class offerings for all ages in oil painting, watercolors, pottery, and more. Cma also works with community and healthcare agencies for using art as therapy for their clients, seeing more than 2,000 participants each year. Cma's education and outreach programs enable people of all ages to use our resources as a place to learn, play, and be inspired by art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 58.1%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.28; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 58.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $966K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.