Chautauqua Craftsmen and Artisans of the Blac
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811360106
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Hot Springs, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6057454684
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,099
- Expenses
- $104,958
- Assets
- $16,092
- Liabilities
- $14,366
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- DEBRA AHRENS (CHAIR)
- JO SCHROEDER (VICE CHAIR)
- RHONDA KOCOUREK (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 provide a local venue for the arts
What it reported doing in 2025
The chautauqua artisans and craftsmen of the black hills inc provided a venue for 27 local and regional craftsmen and artisans to exhibit and market their work and 232 students in 49 art and craft classes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.8%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.7%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.8% of revenue deployed · 13.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.