Caponi Art Park
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411746425
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Eagan, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6514549412
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,715
- Expenses
- $162,648
- Assets
- $98,812
- Liabilities
- $12,416
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENISE SJOBERG (President)
People named in this filing
- CHERYL CAPONI (Executive Dir.)
- DENISE SJOBERG (President)
- ERIN PAULSON (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 make art accessible to people of all ages & backgrounds. This is accomplished by providing a cultural & educational center where people come together with art & nature to restore, nurture & maintain the basic unity of the human spirit.
What it reported doing in 2024
EDUCATIONAL TOURS & WORKSHOPS: In 2024, the art park offered 120 tours & workshops for over 3,000 people from toddlers to seniors. The park brought art workshops off-site to Community Education Departments in 12 school districts and 10 libraries throughout the Twin Cities. Connecting Youth to Nature was a new program for students to learn from Native American culture bearers about the plants, animals, & land of Caponi Art Park. Participation in the art park's 6th annual Hot Art! workshops & hot metal pour continued to grow.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -30.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.7% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.