Erie Art Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251196748
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8144595477
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,019,283
- Expenses
- $1,165,785
- Assets
- $6,884,068
- Liabilities
- $222,110
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA DOMENCIC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ANGELA MCCLIMANS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- PAULA BURLEIGH (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAURA DOMENCIC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- GREG FILBECK (TREASURER)
- PATRICIA LOUBEAU (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the erie art museum is to promote and advance the visual arts by maintaining a quality art collection, by encouraging art in all its forms, by fostering lifelong art learning, and by building community among artists, art students, and the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education - the museum's education program encourages lifelong learning in the general public through a variety of program offerings, including studio art classes, workshops, lectures, guided tours, and projects that offer the public art-making opportunities. Studio art classes taught by professional artists offer beginners and amateurs an opportunity to create art in a nurturing environment with quality instruction. The education program specifically addresses preschool through highschool teachers through in-service and professional development programs. The museum hosts interns from all over the united states and beyond in an applied learning situation that enables students to experience the real-world application of their academic learning through participation in museum programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.91; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $909K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.