Clarksville-montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460483788
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Clarksville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9315518870
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,557
- Expenses
- $155,217
- Assets
- $189,394
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
People named in this filing
- ARTHUR NICHOLSON (VICE CHAIR)
- YVONNE KENDALL (Director)
- BRENDA HARPER (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 assist arts and heritage organizations in clarksville-montgomery county, tn; fort campbell, ky; and four nearby counties in Tennessee in marketing, developing and presenting quality arts and heritage programs; and, by doing so enhancing arts and heritage awareness, promoting economic development, and contributing to the overall quality of life for the 229,600+ residents they serve.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council printed a Cultural Calendar with work by local artists and posting of local cultural events throughout the year; acted as the designated agency for the Tennessee Arts Commission to allocate Arts Build Communities funds in seven counties; hosted the annual 2Rivers PleinAir Paint Out, with artists from middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky converging on Clarksville to paint the community, culminating in an exhibition and art sale on the final evening of the event; publicized arts events hosted by organizations throughout the community through Facebook postings and emails; honored Paul Binkley, David Alford, and Don Sharpe, with Lifetime Achievemen Awards for their contributions to heritage and the arts in our community; worked in partnership with First Presbyterian Church of Clarksville and the Downtown Artists Co-op on the Arts 4 Hearts program to bring arts experiences to community members who face economic, physical or cognitive barriers to the arts; hosted the annual Clarksville Writers Conference; worked with Montgomery County on several pieces of public art; continued work on signs for downtown for Clarksville Then and Now.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.