Gahanna Area Arts Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821230317
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Gahanna, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6147952284
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,360
- Expenses
- $59,816
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christian Peck (President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Dengel (Secretary)
- Christian Peck (President)
- Bob Bowers (Chief Governance Officer)
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
He Gahanna area arts council connects and enriches our community through participation in and engagement with the arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ohio Arts Council Ohio Artists on Tour supports 1/3 of professional fees for performers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.6%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 18%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.6%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -133.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.6% of revenue deployed · 18% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.