Grosse Pointe Artists Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383158002
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, USA
Phone
3138813454
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$63,710
Expenses
$32,602
Assets
$269,834
Liabilities
$156

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAREN POPE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KAREN POPE (PRESIDENT)
  • NOBUKO YAMASAKI (VICE PRESIDE)
  • PETER GARGASOULAS (TREASURER)

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

To use the power of art to enrich the lives of individuals and the communities in which they live.

What it reported doing in 2025

The volunteers of the grosse pointe artists association (gpaa) are laser focused on using art to enrich the lives of individuals. For individuals, the gpaa offers classes, exhibitions and frequent opportunities to build a sense of community with fellow artists, an effective antidote to the isolation epidemic brought on by social media. Showing support for the community, gpaa also organizes exhibitions such as remembering the long vietnam war to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of conflict. Because of the controversy surrounding the war very few artifacts were available, so gpaa reached out to the veterans in the community for their help. The resulting exhibition was therapeutic for the veterans and instructive to the history classes that visited. During the year, the association also organized exhibitions to support the art therapy program at the john d. Dingell va medical center, aauw, focus (a camera club affiliated with the scarab club), the grosse pointe garden center and the lakeside palette club of st. Clair shores.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.3%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.28; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.3% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.