Digital Grail
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371874849
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Fargo, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7017998861
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,917
- Expenses
- $98,813
- Assets
- $58,191
- Liabilities
- $225
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa Janson (President)
- Taylor Beierle (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lisa Janson (President)
- Taylor Beierle (Vice President)
- Adam Helsene (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cultural education via events that serve to promote arts and culture through speakers, demonstrations, and other activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Corecon is an event dedicated connecting, enriching, and expanding the community and inspiring individuals to use their imagination and educate the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.