International Council of Fine Arts Deans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751727752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5615140810
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $464,156
- Expenses
- $454,559
- Assets
- $378,954
- Liabilities
- $55,827
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES FRAZIER (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
- MARTIN CAMACHO (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ALISON PRUITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ALISON PRUITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $114,208 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Icfad is a multinational alliance of executive academic visual and performing arts, design, and media administrators representing institutions of higher education. Beyond being the provider of professional development, icfad facilities forums for exchange of ideas, information, and opportunities for presidents, provosts, deans, associate deans, assistant deans, directors, chairs, and fundraising professional in the arts.icfad commits to its role as influential advocate for the arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
From its inception in 1964, icfad has organized conferences to provide opportunities for arts deans to help deans. During these conferences, topics of interest to the membership are discussed by artist, academic and intellectual leaders, and government and foundation officials. Icfad's annual conference is held usually in october in a major cultural center. The annual conference provides an opportunity, in formal and informal settings, to network with colleagues and guests about developments in the arts or other general topics of interest. Annual conferences usually feature panel discussions with leading national experts in the arts, local arts leaders, and icfad deans. Icfad members are kept informed and involved in developments through this annual conference. Icfad also provides additional training in post conference sessions, fellows programs and international symposiums. In 2020, management realized how financially dependent icfad's operations were on conference-related income. Icfad promptly developed online programming for members and developed related sponsorship opportunities; focused on membership retention and recruiting efforts; transitioned to an anniversary-date instead of calendar year dues cycle; and approved policy related to use of financial reserves. Creatively and collaboratively addressing the challenges of 2020 resulted in financial solvency and increased member benefits. Icfad provides a network of communication and education to inform and educate members of current issues and topics facing arts administrators in higher education across the united states and the world. Frequent email communications, the website, the online programming, an online forum and national conferences provide the foundation of communication to keep members abreast of initiatives, resolutions and new trends in the arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $345K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.