International Child Art Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522032649
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025301000
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,948
- Expenses
- $82,586
- Assets
- $60,781
- Liabilities
- $499,996
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashfaq Ishaq (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ashfaq Ishaq (Executive Director)
- Katty Guerami (Director of Community Engagement)
- Sarita Lewis (UX/UI Designer)
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
ICAF has served American children as their national arts organization since 1997. ICAF employs the arts as a universal language of peace to foster bonds among them and with their peers worldwide.
What it reported doing in 2025
ICAF organized its national school art program (the Arts Olympiad). The 7th Arts Olympiad's deadline was extended to May 15, 2026. In 2025, ICAF successfully conducted the program in several U.S. school districts. Many more school districts will be invited to participate in 2026. The exceptional young artists chosen through school art contests will represent their schools at the 7th World Children's Festival which will take place on the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol on July 25-27, 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
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: 17.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 8.23; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -38.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.