Create Together Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
036004107
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ludlow, VT, USA
Phone
8022288770
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,658
Expenses
$72,021
Assets
$49,299
Liabilities
$4,847

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kathryn Svec (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Pollyanna Sidell (Board Chair)
  • Kathryn Svec (Executive Director)
  • Susan Damone Balch (Director at Large)

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

Arts and Crafts Education: To empower creative growth in the Okemo Valley by providing access to professional equipment, learning opportunities, and a collaborative space where people can learn, create, and thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

Technical Arts Education & STEAM Instruction - (Workshops) Intergenerational Skill Transfer & Workforce Development In 2025, Create Together executed a technical, skill-development education program serving 252 cumulative participants across all age groups. This initiative provided over 30 technical workshops for adults. Programming offered specialized instruction in over 10 artistic disciplines, including ceramics, fiber arts (quilting and weaving), stained glass, and metalwork. By contracting with 22 professional teaching artists, the organization provided high-quality education while directly investing in Vermont's Creative Economy. Two one-week STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) pilot programs for youth aged 8-14 were implmented. To ensure community-wide access, the organization provided scholarships or significant subsidies to the majority of youth participants, removing financial barriers to high-level training. This program serves as a critical educational bridge in the Okemo Valley, ensuring that technical proficiency in heritage and modern crafts remains an accessible path for personal and professional development.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.