Grass Roots Art & Community Effort

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
223133388
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Hardwick, VT, USA
Phone
8024726857
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,297
Expenses
$82,764
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • STEPHEN FERBER (BOARD PRES &)
  • BETHANY WARNER (SECRETARY)
  • BERTOLD FRANCKE (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Grace brings weekly art making workshops to the places where people live and work: nursing homes, mental health centers, senior meal sites, adult day centers, and artists' homes. Grace has been recognized and supported as an important and original community arts program by the Vermont art council, the national endowment for the arts, the new england foundation for the arts, the Vermont community foundation and many private foundations.

What it reported doing in 2019

Discovery & development of art produced primarily by self-taught artists from special populations and the promotion of workshop art through art exhibits. Over 500 workshops are held in vt. We have a small population we serve, given our rural area. We don't hold "events" just workshops that people can depend upon week after week, summer or winter.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 78% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 50

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: -35%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 49.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2019
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.