Cultural Center of Cape Cod

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043553295
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
South Yarmouth, MA, USA
Phone
5083947100
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,231,921
Expenses
$1,489,575
Assets
$3,264,611
Liabilities
$96,842

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VIRGINIA HOECK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • VIRGINIA HOECK (PRESIDENT)
  • JASON LILLY (TREASURER)
  • LARRY THAYER (CLERK)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve the entire cape community and visitors to the area by offering instruction, entertainment, and exhibition in the visual, literary, and performing arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

The cultural center of cape cod is a year-round, inclusive arts and cultural hub in Massachusetts offering instruction, entertainment, and exhibition under our guiding principle "all the arts for all of us." we have five galleries, a performance hall, resident artist studios, culinary arts center, recording studio, ceramic studios, classrooms and a screen- free, self-serve makerspace for ages 4-10. In 2025, the center presented 31 art exhibitions, showcasing 406 adult and student artists. We offered 909 classes in visual and culinary arts, creative movement, the humanities, and hosted 63 concerts and live performances, of which 33% were headlined by women and 18% by bipoc artists. We offer free and discounted admission to our programs through scholarships and grants. Over 2,400 volunteer hours supported our offerings and 219,318 was injected into the creative economy through payments to artists and performers. Our rise and shine program provided more than 2,200 hours of community visits in tailored art experiences for youth, seniors, people with special needs, unhoused people, and people in recovery. The center will upgrade our performance hall in 2026 with advancements to improve the experience for hearing impaired visitors.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.