Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301001605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Corsicana, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4806770928
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $270,756
- Expenses
- $187,019
- Assets
- $428,802
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SALLY WARREN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KYLE HOBRATSCHK (EXECUTIVE DI): $40,080 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization advances the production and presentation of new work and ideas by a national and international community of artists and writers by providing an arena of generous support and historic space enriched by the local legacies and community of corsicana, Texas.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization has granted residencies to 170 artists and writers from across the united states and 17 countries, who come to produce career- shifting work influenced by grand, historic studios and small-town Texas. Our residents are afforded an immersive environment to cultivate new sculpture, painting, film, installation, textile, performance, poetry, fiction and non, translation, and music composition, to list several practices - work that generally exhibit, publishes, screens and performs far beyond here, in New York, los angeles, puerto rico, caracas, paris, santiago, berlin, seoul, reykjavik, and dallas. Work that is seen, read, and experienced by people who then learn that corsicana, this residency, that Texas helped make possible the next museum exhibition, the next bestselling nonfiction, the next film screened at festivals, the next play performed off-broadway. Of equal importance is our investment in the cultural vibrancy of rural and small-town america, and to express that these places don't just matter, but are consequential to global conversations in contemporary creative work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.1%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.9%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.1% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.