Creative Arts Experience

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990326037
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Honolulu, HI, USA
Phone
8082264787
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,000
Expenses
$12,200
Assets
$4,800
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sandra Pohl (President)

People named in this filing

  • Sandra Pohl (President)
  • Su Shen Atta (Director)
  • Felicia B Marquez Wong (Director)

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

Creative Arts Experience (CAE) promotes community well-being through accessible arts education, cultural programming, and creative placemaking. CAE provides educational programs and community arts experiences that foster creativity, lifelong learning, social connection, and participation in the arts while strengthening healthier, more connected communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Arts Education Programs CAE provided 12 arts education classes designed to expand access to the arts and encourage creativity, self expression, lifelong learning, social connection, and personal well-being. Average attendance was approximately 15 participants per class, representing approximately 180 participant visits during the year. Community Arts and Creative Placemaking Events CAE produced two free arts and cultural events in public spaces, with approximately 3,000 attendees at one event and 200 attendees at the second, for a combined attendance of approximately 3,200. These events used arts, culture, and creative placemaking to activate public spaces, expand community access to the arts, bring people together through shared creative experiences, and strengthen community connection.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.