Deer Path Art League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 366112791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lake Forest, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8472343743
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,516
- Expenses
- $85,284
- Assets
- $224,856
- Liabilities
- $7,741
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA SCHOLLY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GERARD GUNDLING (TREASURER)
- ANN GRANT (DIRECTOR)
- JANE JONES (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To stimulate, promote, and maintain interest in the visual arts, both from the standpoint of appreciation and creation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual art show in town square provides a place for the residents of lake forest and the surrounding communities to show, see and purchase art. Artists pay an entry fee to participate in the show, and fees are paid for judging the artwork. The program served approximately 100-125 artists with public attendance from many surrounding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.7%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 52
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: 35.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.64; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.7% of revenue deployed · 52.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.