Foundation for Arts and Cultural Connections Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454000275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2055956306
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Celebrations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $346,802
- Expenses
- $381,005
- Assets
- $114,851
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EILEEN KUNZMAN (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EILEEN KUNZMAN (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT): $54,060 total reported compensation
- ALEX KUNZMAN (SECRETARY & TREASURER): $51,940 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To expand the community's cultural and educational experiences by developing partnerships that help raise the level of expertise for educational opportunities, dialogue, experimentation and appreciation of the arts, nature and sustainability that help raise the level of expertise in designing new strategies for living to enrich and shape community life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Produce two art festivals, moss rock festival and magic city art connection, which hosts hundreds of working artists, many of the regions arts and cultural organizations, students of elementary, high school and university school systems, and a growing number of non-profit organiations from nature, sustainability and eco-design sectors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $370K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.