Cartie Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844194200
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Shelton, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2036443956
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,571
- Expenses
- $235,765
- Assets
- $190,319
- Liabilities
- $2,684
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
People named in this filing
- CLARE MURRAY (EXECUTIVE DI)
- BRIAN LAMY (BOARD MEMBER)
- MARY HASSETT (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Cartie is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization bridging inequities in education and arts access across Connecticut, and bringing the museum field trip to schools and students directly. It reimagines the museum concept, deconstructs traditional models, and is committed to making sure all of Connecticut's children and students feel represented and empowered.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cartie offers inclusive internship and exhibition opportunities to all of Connecticut's population of high school art students and provides critical museum-based learning opportunities that enrich and deepen early education and sel, while meeting elds, nccas, and ccss, to prek-2 students who otherwise may not have access to robust arts programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
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: -18.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.