Gaylord Area Council for the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382329722
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Gaylord, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9897323242
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,491
- Expenses
- $109,997
- Assets
- $206,996
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Audra Leininger (Executive Director)
- Sandra Hines (Board President)
- Greg Watling (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Audra Leininger (Executive Director)
- Betsy Yusko (Administrative Assistant)
- Sandra Hines (Board President)
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 purpose of the Gaylord Area Council for the Arts is to enrich the community through sponsorship and promotion of arts and cultural events and performances, and to support the creativity and art education of youth in the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support and promote arts and cultural events: Held 12 exhibits, showcasing 391 artists. Held 12 workshops, teaching 75 attendees. Held 25 live social gatherings with 410 attendees to discuss art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 12
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16% of revenue deployed · 12.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.