Discovery Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954700750
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9494548997
- Rating
- 33
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,152
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DON HARPER (President)
People named in this filing
- DON HARPER (President)
- MARILYN CLEMENTS (Executive Dir.)
- MARK PONCHER (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
Programs are interactive creative adventures in music, dance, art & drama, which address the emotional needs of children hospitalized with cancer and serious blood disorders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -198.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.