Columbus Society of Communicating Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237360468
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2012
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6144103120
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,600
- Expenses
- $43,909
- Assets
- $20,334
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Unite, inform, and inspire the central Ohio design community.
What it reported doing in 2012
To provide venues for graphic and communication arts. In 2012 the CSCA produced 1 special event and 9 exhibitions/speakers that served over 380 participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.5%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 55.5% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.