Clay Center of New Orleans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815241031
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,045
- Expenses
- $109,415
- Assets
- $7,623
- Liabilities
- $53,067
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michelle Swafford (Board President)
- Tracey Bellina (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michelle Swafford (Board President)
- Tracey Bellina (Board Vice President)
- Beth Hanning (Board Secretary 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Clay Center of New Orleans is a nonprofit organization that serves to grow support and elevate ceramic art and artists by bringing high-quality ceramic art exhibitions education outreach and professional opportunities to the city of New Orleans. Our vision is to expand access to professional-quality ceramic art education exhibitions and opportunities to the community of New Orleans and to provide local artists with the ceramic supplies facilities and workspace they need to develop their careers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Studio Programs: We offer classes workshops low-cost kiln firing service open studio and studio space for rent. Since opening our first studio in 2022 weve developed a thriving community of students and members of varied ages and backgrounds offered a wider range of ceramics classes and workshops for all levels of learners and hosted workshops by nationally-recognized visiting artists. in 2024 we offered 15.6% more educational offerings than in 2023. In 2024 we opened a dedicated members studio space and created semi-private studio spaces for resident artists.We continue to lower the barriers to entry into the ceramics world by offering affordable pricing and subsidized opportunities as part of our Community Education program. We offer low-cost kiln firing services to the general public a Studio Monitor program that reduces the cost of studio time low-cost studio access to more than 30 local artists per month and free recycled clay for all of our students. By constantly working to identify and remove barriers weve developed a diverse and supportive studio community that is representative of the city as a whole.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.4%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 15
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.96; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.4% of revenue deployed · 15.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.