CollECtive Arts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822954860
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Eau Claire, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7158940272
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,477
- Expenses
- $102,726
- Assets
- $22,258
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KURT SCHAUSS (President)
People named in this filing
- KURT SCHAUSS (President)
- PAMELA MATTOON (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- CHRISTOPHER WENSINK (MEMBER AT LARGE)
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
Religious, arts, education
What it reported doing in 2025
The collective arts center engaged in programming throughout the year for all ages with emphasis on grade school, teens and young adult ages. There were 200 days of events and programming in 2025. We hosted over 50 hours of studio recording involving 28 people, launched a guitar building class involoving 4 students, hosted 5 different dance groups from area hmong associations and the univerisity of wi eau claire and hosted rehearsals for 4 different local bands who used the space independently, as well as a homeschool coop with 26 kids.
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
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.