Indicatorart Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811602969
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Orchard Park, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168706505
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Service Organizations and Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,198
- Expenses
- $97,866
- Assets
- $32,346
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dominick Palmo (President(acting))
People named in this filing
- Katie Buvoltz (Treasurer)
- Dominick Palmo (President(acting))
- Doug Rockwood (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of IndicatorArt is to enrich the lives of people with developmental disabilities through the creative arts. We accomplished this by implementing inclusive Painting and Music Workshops conducted by caring professionals in an empowering, respectful and fun environment. Our innovative Workshops offer students a unique experience while demonstrating to the communities in which they live what they can do rather than what they cannot do.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we had 330 Workshops slots filled which is a 10% increase over the previous year. Three hundred of the slots were for our Painting Workshops. Our Workshops are unique. Unlike most art programs for people with developmental disabilities, we approach each student as an artist. We only use artist grade materials and our instructor, who is a professional artist, encourages students to take their paintings in any direction they choose while establishing a fun, caring and respectful environment. Also, our Workshops are inclusive as family members, caregivers and members of the community are always welcomed to participate. We continue to receive positive feedback from caregivers regarding the positive impact our Workshops have on students. Many of whom have experienced a growth in their self-esteem and confidence and nearly all have expressed a desired to attend additional Workshops. Our Workshops are funded primarily through fees and donations. The grants we have recently received are specifically for paying the compensation of a new administrative assistant for our Executive Director. The assistant will focus on handling the myriad of nonprogram activities to allow the Executive Director to focus on finding new sources of students and fund raising.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.4%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 112.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.4% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.