Friends of Metuchen Arts Council a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850766976
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8482194780
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,431
- Expenses
- $53,047
- Assets
- $37,044
- Liabilities
- $4,729
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHLEEN DRINANE DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN DRINANE DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
- JOANNE HOOVER (CO-TREASURER)
- MIGENA LIKA (CO-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
Friends of metuchen arts (foma) is organized to present events, offer programs, and provide financial support for the growth of art in all its forms, including but not limited to visual arts, film, music, theatre, and dance in the borough of metuchen and surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization advanced its exempt purpose by promoting arts education and cultural enrichment through volunteer engagement, fundraising, grant and program support, and community events. Activities benefited local artists, students, and vendors, fostered public appreciation of the arts, and ensured broad community acceshe organization advanced its exempt purpose by promoting arts education and cultural enrichment through volunteer engagement, fundraising, grant and program support, and community events. Activities benefited local artists, students, and vendors, fostered public appreciation of the arts, and ensured broad community access through inclusive and accessible programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.2%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 68.1%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.2% of revenue deployed · 68.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.