Cathedral Arts Project

Legal name: Cathedral Arts Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593672453
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Phone
904.281.5599
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,064,227
Expenses
$4,181,799
Assets
$7,556,199
Liabilities
$1,494,143

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

44 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIMBERLY HYATT (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMBERLY HYATT (PRESIDENT & CEO): $205,698 total reported compensation
  • DOUG WALKER (VP OF PHILANTHROPY): $140,228 total reported compensation
  • LYNDLE LINDOW (VP OF ADMINISTRATION AND F): $112,512 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

CAP’s mission is to empower every child’s creative spirit, elevate arts educators in their field and advocate for access to arts education. Because of your support, CAP students have an opportunity to learn, create and grow. You don't just help fund a class, you fuel a community of rising leaders. We are endlessly grateful for your belief in CAP's mission. #CAPkidsjax #TheArtsAddUp]( ]( Keep your students growing and engaged this summer... Open post by cathedralartsproject with ID 18077152748308775. Sammi provides music therapy at multiple schools and sites throughout the year. She works closely with our partner sites to integrate evidence-based music therapy interventions that support student growth and development. Sammi brings extensive experience working with individuals of all ages and backgrounds across a variety of clinical and community settings. Her passion lies in fostering...

What it reported doing in 2024

The cathedral arts project (cap) is a nationally recognized nonprofit provider of quality visual and performing arts instruction for children and young adults in northeast Florida. Our mission is to empower every child's creative spirit, elevate arts educators in their field and advocate for access in art education. Our vision is bold: to make northeast Florida a national example in providing accessible and essential arts education that celebrates each child's unique talents and strengths. For too many children in our community, the arts remain out of reach. Even when arts programs are available, they're frequently limited in scope and accessibility, preventing young people from fully engaging in the arts and realizing their potential.cap fills this need. We expanded our enrollments from 3,673 in the 2023-24 school year to 4,328 in 2024-2025. In 2024-2025, cap conducted programs in over 55 sites in duval, clay, nassau and st. John's counties, providing a range of arts programs tailored to the needs of a wide range of student populations. These include music therapy for students with disabilities, arts programming for youth in crisis care, sensory arts for exceptional education students, and creative arts counseling that addresses individual support needs and other challenges. Cap students' achievements speak to the impact of these programs: our young musicians have won awards at the crescendo international music competition and performed at venues like carnegie hall and harvard university, showcasing the level of arts education they receive.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 39 of 39 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $206K · 44 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $495K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.