Crossroads Cultural Arts Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473839541
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Clarksdale, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6624831294
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,929
- Expenses
- $95,474
- Assets
- $71,221
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chandra Williams (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Edward Whitfield (Board Chair)
- Joyce Hill (Treasurer)
- Donica England (Secretary)
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
The purpose of the Crossroads Cultural Art Center (CCAC) is to support residents of Mississippi Delta in preserving and sharing the history and culture of the Delta amongst themselves and with visitors, especially through the arts. The CCAC celebrates and preserved the unique artistic expressions and heritage of the Delta's African Americans whose creativity continues to inspire people from around the globe. Traditional and new art forms, rooted in the cultural expressions and history of the Delta African Americans, are shared to promote inclusive community engagements, cross-cultural understanding, and cultural tourism.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public Education on African Origins and Functions of Blues - Panel discussions; 5000 Years of Blues exhibit; Visit from Ryan Coogler, Sinners cast and crew and Warner Brothers executive team. Clarksdale Culture Capital events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 49.9%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of revenue deployed · 49.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.