First Coast Cultural Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593238148
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9042800614
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $475,086
- Expenses
- $616,302
- Assets
- $2,574,347
- Liabilities
- $1,219,984
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA GUZZO (FORMER PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA GUZZO (FORMER PRESIDENT): $32,171 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring the arts into the community through arts education, exhibitions, and outreach, and by honoring a donor-driven philosphy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Classes and workshops: Our classes offer an intimate, exceptional learning experience in an inspiring setting with locally and nationally recognized artists and educators and provide multi-faceted curriculum from novice to advanced levels. This extends maximum accessibility of programs that strive to develop the individual s artistic interests and abilities. In addition to our on-site programming, we offer a wide scope of educational opportunities for underserved communities throughout nearby counties. Our center s outreach efforts are targeted at reaching underserved children and adults by bringing high-quality arts education and artistic experiences to community centers and rehabilitation centers. Our outreach department fulfills our mission by hiring highly qualified art instructors, purchasing professional art supplies, and providing educational hands-on instruction for several longstanding programs.
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 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.8%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 35.2%; rating input score 35
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.8% of revenue deployed · 35.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $217K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.