Champlain Islands Celebration of the Arts Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030313918
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
North Hero, VT, USA
Phone
8023728889
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$163,467
Expenses
$72,537
Assets
$797,419
Liabilities
$1,837

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CATHERINE WILCOX (PRESIDENT)
  • TONY PIETRICOLA (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DANIELLE SIMONEAU (Director)
  • Natalie Churchill (Director)
  • Judith Steacy (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Island Arts provides creative artistic opportunities and performances for visitors and residents of the Champlain Islands through community outreach, classes, galleries and concerts in the iconic red barn. Community support ranging from student scholarships to artistic performances providing unique artistic cultural opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

4a - Through our Island Arts Academy we sponsor scholarships for all Grand Isle County residents. When available, rental of musical instruments for all our Grand Isle County elementary school age children. We work in partnership with the youth focused theater groups such as Full Circle Theater Collaborative (two weeks of rehearsals with four performances), The Very Merry Theatre, and the LCATV week long Youth Film Camp, bringing opportunities to the youth in Grand Isle and surrounding areas to explore acting and film making. We offered weekly classes in Tai Chi, Folk Dancing and Meditation & Yoga as well as offering classes for Birding, Singing, Card Making and the Alexander Technique. Our programs are supported in part through appropriations from the five Towns that make up Grand Isle County in VT. For more information visit www.islandarts.org.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 39.3%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $108.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.99; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 39.3% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $268K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.