Central Florida Community Arts Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452324172
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location
Winter Park, FL, USA
Phone
4079371800
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,030,248
Expenses
$1,774,150
Assets
$508,268
Liabilities
$120,674

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUSTIN MUCHONEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JUSTIN MUCHONEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $103,609 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To create a cultural platform where every person can join an artistic family and connect, serve and perform to advance the arts in central Florida.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our youth program is designed for performers in grades k5 to 12. These young performers are offered a structured, loving environment focused on the joy of learning music, performance and movement. To keep affordable, membership dues are kept to a minimum, with payment plans and scholarships available. Each season culminates in a full-scale production. Children involved in the program learn altruism and community giving by performing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities and performing service projects in the community. The youth program also holds summer day camp, where the arts are used to develop young performers' creativity, teamwork and self-confidence while incorporating aspects of theater, music and dance. Summer camps also have membership dues kept to a minimum, with payment plans and scholarships available as needed in order to serve under privileged youth through organizations like children's home society of Florida, family partnerships of central Florida, and step up for students.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.7%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.7% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.