Healing Arts Project, Inc.
Legal name: Healing Arts Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371486630
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Nashville, TN, US
- Phone
- 6157616126
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $242,845
- Expenses
- $239,461
- Assets
- $15,111
- Liabilities
- $472
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynece BentonStewart (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lynece BentonStewart (Executive Director): $51,820 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Healing Arts Project, Inc. provides opportunities for persons in mental health and addiction recovery to promote healing, community awareness and inclusion.
What it reported doing in 2024
It was an exceptional year for HAPI as we achieved significant milestones under the grant. We conducted art classes at 22 different sites, both virtually and in person, totaling 275 classes and 598 participants. Additionally, we supported 115 independent artists on our artist support list, all of whom are underserved Tennesseans recovering from mental health and substance use disorders. HAPI also facilitated 212 classes at four separate sites, engaging a total of 680 artists. We collaborated on three beautiful murals with the help of art participants in the Middle Tennessee region. Since COVID-19, our numbers have decreased in some centers, so we are strategically considering either combining sites with low attendance or reaching out to agencies with individuals on the waiting list who could benefit from HAPI services. We are actively seeking new venues to exhibit art and successfully showcased 198 original art pieces created by 144 artists this year. Overall, HAPI operated at 23 sites, taught 275 art classes, and engaged 719 unduplicated artists, incorporating participation from art classes, independent artists, and those featured in our exhibits. We were also fortunate to receive contributions from several out-of-state corporate organizations looking to give back.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.