Fresh Artists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261308515
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lafayette Hill, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2673318614
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,305,631
- Expenses
- $1,267,623
- Assets
- $1,104,116
- Liabilities
- $386,541
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA CHANDLER ALLEN (FOUNDER/BOARD PRESIDENT)
- ROGER ALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROGER ALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $71,131 total reported compensation
- BARBARA CHANDLER ALLEN (FOUNDER/BOARD PRESIDENT): $4,172 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 empower k-12 children as philanthropists and changemakers through their art. To advocate for quality public education by displaying children's art in highly visible and unexpected places. To deliver art supplies and innovative art programs to severly underfunded public schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
This year fresh artists delivered essential art materials and innovative art programs to 175 teachers across 34 states - impacting more than 45,000 k-12 children. The art teachers we serve were provided with little to no budget for art materials. They teach in public schools where 70-100% of the children live at or below the poverty level, making it virtually impossible for families to provide their own consumable supplies for art classes or pay for out-of-school time art programs. Fresh artists invites generous and talented children to donate artwork to our corporate collection to help other children access art education. We are grateful to our generous adult and child donors for helping fresh artists provide young people with critically needed art materials and programs vital to a child's self-expression, self-esteem, and skill-building needed for lifelong success!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 2.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.