Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232134487
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Delaware Water Gap, PA, USA
Phone
5703501070
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,487
Expenses
$55,782
Assets
$66,353
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNY BOGART (PRESIDENT)
  • DIANE PALITTO (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNY BOGART (PRESIDENT)
  • DIANE PALITTO (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • PAM HUDAK (TREASURER)

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

Festival created to develop & promote appreciation of jazz as american art form through presentation of public jazz festival and concert.annual attendance 3000-4000.

What it reported doing in 2024

Cota campjazz is a week long jazz camp in july each year for teenage students. It is all about small group improvisation - you start your day with a little creative listening and discussion, then learn (in multiple levels based on experience) repertory-specific theory and ear training - experiment with composition- attend lunch-time concerts and master classes on the anatomy of the jam session, early jazz, sessions with nea jazz master phil woods: discuss higher education with cota graduates - take a field trip to east stroudsburg university and visit the extensive al cohn memorial collection, a wealth of musical resources. Record at red rock saturday and perform sunday after the family bbq. Experience evening permormances of the best in jazz right where it lives - the deer head inn in historic Delaware water gap, pa.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 9.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -38.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.