Color Me Empowered
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263634267
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2147292499
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,548
- Expenses
- $120,199
- Assets
- $155,761
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristen Rice (Executive Director)
- Bri Wunderli (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Kristen Rice (Executive Director)
- Margaret Rice (Board Secretary)
- Bri Wunderli (Board President)
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
Color Me Empowered provides programming that empowers children and communities through the implementation of civic art.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have been giving scholarships for our summer camps since we began offering summer camp classes in 2016. Providing equitable access to the arts is the driving force behind our scholarship program. Since moving into our own studio in 2018, we have been able to expand our scholarship program and class offerings, which has been an exciting stage in our development. Last summer, we saw more students in our studio than ever before and almost all of them were able to attend because of our scholarship program. One thing we also discovered last year was that there are many adults who are eager to develop a new creative skill, or build upon a favorite creative pastime that they haven't had the time or place to explore or develop. Last fall, we began offering film photography and sewing for adults (as well as for children) and have found that even offering classes at-cost can be a barrier to participating. As we move into our busy season in 2026, we are broadening our scholarship program to include financial assistance for adults and for all are classes and workshops. We want to continue to find ways to increase access and eliminate barriers to high-quality arts programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.