Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471706241
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145631760
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,174
- Expenses
- $97,779
- Assets
- $65,159
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBECCA J PERRY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- REBECCA J PERRY (PRESIDENT)
- LUCY SHELTON CASWELL (VICE PRESIDE)
- DAN GEARINO (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
To celebrate the art of cartooning, its history and creators; to encourage the next generation of cartoonists, to showcase columbus Ohio; and to coordinate programming that furthers these goals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organized an annual four-day festival in columbus Ohio devoted to cartoonists and the cartooning arts featuring 50 special guest artists, creators, writers, and illustrators ranging from the already internationally famous to emerging ones. The festival includes professional development courses, nighttime spotlight events with cartoonists, and a two day, free to the public, curated exposition with panel programming, a book fair, comics classes, portfolio reviews, and live drawing presentations. The festival provides a form for those in the industry to connect with each other, and for connections to be made between cartoonists and their fans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.9%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
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: 31.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.9% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K 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: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.