Idea Box Integrated Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853689914
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3123756639
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,591
- Expenses
- $21,319
- Assets
- $1,615
- Liabilities
- $1,264
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathryn Baltensperger (President)
- Susan Thompson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Emily Leonard (Foundation Mgr.)
- Kathryn Baltensperger (President)
- Susan Thompson (Vice 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
Elementary School Performing Arts Residency: Provide a team of 5 artists-in-residence who work together to provide instruction in movement, voice, craft, and music, culminating in a single performance product. The residency serves 360 students in Grades K-5, with a single student participating in 180 hours of performing arts classes over the 6-year residency period. *note-- programming with this partner began prior to our transition to a 401c3. The 9-year duration of this ongoing residency exceeds the number of years Idea Box has been a non-profit organization. Elementary School: A team of 3 artists-in-residence delivered a 6-week intensive residency for 270 students in grades K through 8, including 2 classrooms of special needs students with severe physical and/or cognitive disabilities. Idea Box worked with the school to custom build a sensory arts curriculum for early elementary and adaptive classrooms, as well as delivering previously developed curricula in fashion design, puppetry
What it reported doing in 2024
Idea Box was created to support the development of community through art-making, the use of student-driven collaborative development processes, the integration of visual and performance elements in art-making, and the understanding of academic concepts through artistic exploration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -144.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -126.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.