Deponte Creativity Partners

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853816935
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5037897020
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,077
Expenses
$126,594
Assets
$22,675
Liabilities
$1,487

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NIEL DEPONTE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • NIEL DEPONTE (PRESIDENT)
  • ZHANNA DAL (DIRECTOR)
  • OLGA DAL (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To educate the public about music

What it reported doing in 2025

Promotes and produced classical chamber music concerts at hoffman farms butler barn in beaverton Oregon

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 31.8%; rating input score 32
  • Program expense ratio: 26.7%; rating input score 27

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: -19.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 31.8% of revenue deployed · 26.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K 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: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 32/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.