Dripping Springs Art League Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933316784
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2817859884
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,443
- Expenses
- $29,877
- Assets
- $24,652
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Friedman (President)
- Jennifer Friedman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen Friedman (President)
- Jennifer Friedman (Vice President)
- Ivy Sheppard (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
To promote, support, and expand access to the visual arts through community programming, artist opportunities, educational initiatives, exhibitions, scholarships, and public engagement within the Dripping Springs area.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization promoted and supported the visual arts within the Dripping Springs community through artist markets, public art initiatives, educational programming, exhibitions, and collaborative community events. During the year, the organization supported a membership base of more than 250 members across 21 active clubs and interest groups focused on artistic collaboration, education, and community engagement. Activities included organizing multiple art calls and markets that provided opportunities for local artists and community businesses; partnering with the City of Dripping Springs to curate, design, and install artist-painted stars throughout prominent public areas of the city; collaborating with the Ledgestone Senior Center to provide intergenerational "Art Across the Ages" programming for youth and seniors; hosting "Artists Supporting Artists," a collaborative initiative pairing songwriters with visual artists to create inspired artwork; and providing community art classes and educational programming at the public library.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.4%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 50.5%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.9%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 57.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.4% of revenue deployed · 50.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 36/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.