Center for Peace Through Culture Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 542081431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Housatonic, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4132008109
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,671
- Expenses
- $162,712
- Assets
- $324,043
- Liabilities
- $1,141
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHLEEN FROME (Vice President)
- COLLEEN SIMO (President)
- MELANIE MCCARTHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN FROME (Vice President)
- LINA BERMUDEZ (Director)
- COLLEEN SIMO (President)
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
Using the arts as a vehicle to cultivate inquiry, well-being, and innovation for positive social impactto affect more peaceful selves and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
1.Partially funded by Berkshire United Way, the CPC offered comprehensive services to Berkshire County schools, nonprofits and businesses. Programming and projects include:*LifeSchool: A comprehensive stress management and wellness program *Coaching for Educators: One on one coaching for teachers and staff to decrease stress and increase job satisfaction2.Community Projects: *Arts 4 Us- provides the opportunity to attend arts venues in the Berkshires. Targeted families historically have not had the means to participate in these activities. (temporarily suspended)*Community Kindness Cards- CPC organizes families to make appreciation cards for people who are isolated by the Covid pandemic and for first responders.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.