Capital City Arts Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201343468
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Carson City, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7757217424
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,875
- Expenses
- $19,407
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER RUSSELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHARON ROSSE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- GLENN CLEMMER PHD (SECRETARY)
- WENDY KAPLAN (TREASURER)
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
The capital city arts initiative is an artist-centered not-for-profit organization committed to community engagement in contemporary visual arts through exhibitions, arts education programs, illustrated talks, artist residencies, and online activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The capital city arts initiative is an artist-centered not-for-profit organization committed to community engagement in contemporary visual arts through exhibitions, arts education programs, essays, illustrated talks, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online activities. In our 22nd year, 2024-2025, ccai produced and presented 14 exhibitions in 4 galleries totaling 885 gallery days. We presented work by 118 artists/essay writers and 84 student artists. To provide the public with gallery and program access, we published 6 exhibit essays, 14 virtual gallery tours with artist interviews, 3 online Nevada neighbors talks, 12 monthly e-newsletters. Ccai paid honoraria to artists, essay writers, Nevada neighbors speakers, graphic design/video production, and for student wall-text translations in spanish. The collaborations for gallery spaces continue with city buildings (brick, courthouse, and crowell room) and with western Nevada college's bristlecone gallery. The work with our great partner schools continues with carson, dayton, douglas, whittell high schools and with wnc. Volunteers donated over 400 hours to the initiative. Over 18 businesses and funders contributed financially or with in-kind services. The initiative served over 7,125 people in-person through four galleries based on m-f building traffic, receptions' attendance, and in-person class visits. Ccai reached a growing number of people through our 91 youtube video views; online website and youtube views total over 12,000. We actively promoted exhibitions and talks in a variety of social media and print media. The on-going generous support from our members and funders kept us energized and our programs moving forward - for this we are most grateful. Check out our youtube channel for current and past exhibition and talk videos: www. Youtube.com/channel/uc3aekto5a2nwzpwnwjxnd-a/videos
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -575%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.