Council for the Arts Jacksonville Onslow

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591755702
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2017
Location
Jacksonville, NC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$29,094
Liabilities
$4,492

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Cindy Edwards (Chair)
  • Gary Hill (Vice Chair)
  • Carol Long (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts encourages diverse artistic expression and learning opportunities to benefit all Jacksonville-Onslow residents and visitors and strengthen rich cultural experiences in its community.

What it reported doing in 2017

Other Cultural Engagement and Tourism Programs: The Arts Council identifies, preserves and honors the artistic and cultural traditions the tremendously diverse community Onslow County provides, and works to address the needs of all residents through engagement and citizen-led initiatives. The Arts also create cultural tourism and economic growth for the county. Research shows that cultural tourism supports direct and indirect jobs and contributes to the purchase of local goods and services within the community. Events such as the African American Music Heritage, Art and Soul and Art Block Festivals are part of these programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 2
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -74.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -67.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.