Create Conway
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853649837
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Conway, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5012321133
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,548
- Expenses
- $103,530
- Assets
- $131,974
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHRYN WILSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA CRUM (DIRECTOR)
- ANITA GROTE (TREASURER)
- JENNIFER MOUSER (CHAIR)
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
Create conway exists to amplify conway as a vibrant destination for arts, culture, and entertainment. Our signature offering is the conway art walk event series with additional programming offered as arts activation events.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our signature offering is the conway art walk event series with additional programming offered as arts activation events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
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: 15.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.