Friends of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911687776
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,516
- Expenses
- $91,789
- Assets
- $102
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leslie Durst (President)
People named in this filing
- Leslie Durst (President)
- Jan Asai (Treasurer)
- Susan Courtney (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Friends of the Arts supports a local gallery that promotes local and regional artists.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our Gallery displays and promotes the work of local and regional artists.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 47.6%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -43.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 47.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.