Cass Area Artists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473332103
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Edwardsburg, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2697820312
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,604
- Expenses
- $2,475
- Assets
- $6,732
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM BECKER (DIRECTOR)
- PAIGE LINBACK (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)
- ALLISON FARKAS (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 bring the visual arts to under served areas of southwestern Michigan and northwestern Indiana especially cass county mi which is listed by the Michigan arts and cultural council as one of the 43 most under served counties of all 83 counties in the state and to enable local artists to participate at no cost in exhibits sponsored by cass area artists at the cass county regional gallery in cassopolis Michigan for no charge whatsoever.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our total membership for 2025 increased to 44. To help assist our members and attract more artists and would be artists we changed our monthly meeting agendas to enable members to bring work in progress or finished work to the meetings to be presented and discussed. Many of our new members joined because they had discovered that we offer members a welcoming interest in their work and their progress encouraging artists of all ages to participate. We take the time to interact with beginners and help them with the basics of showing their art and give them the acceptance and information that they want and need. We also keep an eye on all upcoming opportunities and publish contact information and links to upcoming events in our meeting minutes which are emailed to all members. As a result our members are becoming more expert at taking advantage of these opportunities. We also have programs at our meetings which cover the gamut of helpful books to studies of published artists styles to show how to best take photos of their work. Thanks to the support of the local library we are able to do all of this in a huge room with audio-visual setup at no cost.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.72; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -32.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.