Columbus Museum of Art and Design Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 351879991
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2010–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Columbus, IN, USA
Phone: 8123734039
Rating: 64
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Art Museums

Reported finances

Revenue: $27,229
Expenses: $17,092
Assets: $143,880

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JAN BANISTER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

JAN BANISTER (PRESIDENT)
MICHELLE ATON (TREASURER)
CHRIS BARTELS (BOARD MEMBER)

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

Columbus museum of art & design enriches and engages the community through public visual art and design experiences.

What it reported doing in 2025

Columbus museum of art & design is a volunteer-led granting organization that supports and works with artists, designers, and other organizations to bring unique projects to the columbus community.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 32
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 73
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 25.8%; rating input score 26
Program expense ratio: 41%; rating input score 41

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 37.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.42; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 25.8% of revenue deployed · 41% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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 26/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.