Garage Arts Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862783802
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Plano, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2146059695
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,887
- Expenses
- $66,526
- Assets
- $10,774
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENUKA RAJAGOPALAN (PRESIDENT)
- SUZY JONES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BRAD SHARP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- RENUKA RAJAGOPALAN (PRESIDENT)
- SANDHYA RAGHURAMAN (SECRETARY)
- SUZY JONES (EXECUTIVE 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Garage arts project (gap) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing an intimate and immersive platform for artists and audiences to foster creativity, and goodwill, increase appreciation of the arts and strive for better cultural understanding.
What it reported doing in 2025
Date: april 11, 2025venue: match, houston, txevent: spring soiree opening act: "a quiet ending" is a meditation on the passing of the choreographer's paternal grandmother. The piece is marked by a slow, dirge-like tempo and somber mood, reflecting the life of a woman of faith, family, and perseverance and encapsulating the quiet end of a life well-lived.choreographer: adam castaneda, performed by dancers from pilot dance project. The main performance, "moving images", is a mesmerizing collection of dance works presented in the shilpanatanam style by dancers kaustavi sarkar and bharathi penneswaran, a unique movement form pioneered by maya kulkarni. The 45-minute performance will feature four distinct pieces, each drawing from classical indian poetry, folk traditions, and temple arts, exploring themes of love, loss, and spirituality.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
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: -2.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 15 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.