Dream in Color Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462216884
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Torrance, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3107407876
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000
- Assets
- $1,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY A MUELLER (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- TIMOTHY A MUELLER (President & CEO)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To put better art supplies into schools and motivate children about the art world.
What it reported doing in 2015
Getting in touch with different schools.
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 and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st 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: -148.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2013 to 2015
- 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.
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 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.