Don and Catharine Bryan Cultural Series Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261270530
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Nags Head, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2525647927
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,525
- Expenses
- $111,784
- Assets
- $18,125
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA DAVIDSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BARBARA DAVIDSON (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID GUILEY (TREASURER)
- DONNA GARCIA (SECRETARY)
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
The bryan cultural series strives to inspire, educate, and challenge, through presentations of the visual, literary, and performing arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Juneteenth supported a juneteenth celebration in collaboration with the pea island preservation society by providing sound engineering and promotional support for the event. Approximately 172 members of the public attended. No grants were received in support of this program. Expenses: 7,364 jockey's ridge concert and anniversary bryan cultural series partnered in support of the 50th anniversary celebration of jockey's ridge state park, helping present a public concert and community drone light show commemorating the park's history and significance to the outer banks community. No grants were received in support of this program. Expenses: 20,000 no grant. Expense 20,000. Joseph decosimo, cleek schrey, and luke richardson presented a public concert featuring acclaimed old-time and traditional roots musicians including banjo, traditional fiddle, harmonica, and more. Approximately 110 members of the public attended the performance. No grants were received in support of this program. Expense: 5,695. Not even past art show supported the public reception and marketing for not even past, an interdisciplinary multimedia exhibition and performance installation by North Carolina artists lynne scott constantine and suzanne scott constantine. No grants were received in support of this program. Expenses: 1,757 holiday concert program presentd a christmas-themed public concert for the local community. Approximately 325 members of the public attended the performance. No grants were received in support of this program. Expenses: 5,935
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.