Cleveland Print Room Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900922757
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2163898756
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,597,427
Expenses
$815,583
Assets
$2,986,132
Liabilities
$208,503

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RACHEL OSCAR (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KERRY DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DI): $80,000 total reported compensation
  • SHARI L WILKINS (FOUNDER AND): $75,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Cleveland print room advances the art and appreciation of the photographic image through community access to darkroom and digital workspace, gallery exhibitions, mastery-based youth education, artist commissioning, and collaborative civic programming. The organization is currently undertaking the adaptive reuse of two industrial buildings in cleveland's midtown neighborhood to expand and deepen this work.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth education and teen institute cpr's teen institute provides free, mastery-based photography education for students ages 12-19 across school-year, summer, and weekend formats. In 2025, the organization undertook a signicant reevaluation of its core curriculum and partner relationships, building toward a more deliberate and sustainable model rooted in three core values: purpose, mastery, and autonomy. Programs operated in continued partnership with cleveland metropolitan school district schools despite ongoing district challenges. Cpr revisited and renewed key partnerships with lincoln-west global studies and saint martin de porres, and ran successful summer camps in collaboration with cuyahoga community college's creative arts academy. New programming included a half-day workshop with the tri-c mandel youth humanities academy summer scholars centered on mindful slow-looking practice, and a residency at ginn academy with photographer ruddy roye. Cpr also expanded its investment in healing-centered and trauma-informed pedagogy. The scope of work with consulting psychologist habeebah grimes grew beyond evaluating and training teaching artists to include evaluation of curriculum design itself in service of trauma-informed practice. This work is shaping how cpr designs and delivers all youth programming going forward.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 74% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.3%; rating input score 23
  • Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 68.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.66; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.3% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $602K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.