Cultural Curriculum Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874439116
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,114
- Expenses
- $41,750
- Assets
- $18,073
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carrie Hood (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Carrie Hood (Board President)
- Kristina Yacks-McKee (Board Secretary)
- Johnnie DiBartolo (Board VP)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Cultural Curriculum Project develops and delivers curriculum-aligned educational programming that connects South Louisiana students across multiple grade levels to the living art music and traditions of their local community. During the tax year the organization engaged 22 culture bearers including musicians artists and tradition keepers as paid program contributors ensuring that authentic community voices are central to the learning experience. This program directly supports state and local academic standards while fostering cultural pride historical awareness and civic identity among participating students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Field Trips & Experiential Learning The organization facilitated immersive curriculum-aligned field trips that brought South Louisiana students out of the classroom and into direct contact with the culture history and artistic traditions of their region. During the tax year the program served approximately 600 students across multiple grade levels providing real-world learning experiences designed to deepen understanding inspire curiosity and cultivate a lasting sense of pride in their community heritage. These field trips were structured to complement classroom instruction and were made possible through partnerships with local culture bearers who served as educators and guides.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.3%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 17
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: 37.8%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.3% of revenue deployed · 16.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.