Friends of Spare Parts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821540409
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2108516100
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,959
- Expenses
- $130,597
- Assets
- $112,063
- Liabilities
- $679
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Rudolph Canter (Board Member President)
- Margaret Peachey (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Anna Rudolph Canter (Board Member President)
- Andrea Puentes (Board Member 2nd VP of Education)
- Ginger Melville-Vaughan (Board Member 3rd VP of Community Engagement)
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
To advance reuse education through the arts Spare Parts educational programs strive to advance the four pillars of sustainability environmental social economic and cultural by diverting creative materials from the waste streams offering community workshops promote a circular economy by providing access to creative reuse materials and emphasize culture and tradition through sustainable art activities to the public
What it reported doing in 2025
The Reuse Art Pantry aims to provide access to arts and craft supplies and materials to underserved community members This is funded primarily by the City of San Antonios Office of Sustainability Neighborhood Community Grant In 2025 Spare Parts partnered with 10 area organizations and provided them each with a two shelf pantry to house creative reuse materials that are free to distribute to the community members the partners serve Each month the partners all receive replenishment bundles of supplies In 2025 the Reuse Art Pantry diverted 1084 pounds of materials from the waste streams and distributed 5775 worth of materials to underserved community members Partners for 2025 include Thrive Youth Center UTSA Department of Fine and Liberal Arts Down Syndrome Association of South Texas Childrens Association for Maximum Potential CAMP Untethered Ministries Corazon Ministries Lions Field Adult and Senior Center Gill Community Center Commanders House and Senior Center Contemporary at Blue Star
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.