Intoto Creative Arts Forum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853171480
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2052010011
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,951
- Expenses
- $126,371
- Assets
- $111,745
- Liabilities
- $780
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kyle Tyree (President)
- Lauren Nicholson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kyle Tyree (President)
- Lauren Nicholson (Vice President)
- Susan Clowdus (Secretary)
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
Intoto Creative Arts Forum provides opportunities for artistic expression, healing, and personal development for individuals affected by homelessness, incarceration, mental health challenges, and disabilities. The organization delivers visual arts, creative writing, music, and other creative programs through partnerships with community service providers, offering accessible, trauma-informed arts education and community engagement opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Intoto Creative Arts Forum provides trauma-informed creative arts programming for individuals affected by homelessness, incarceration, mental health challenges, and disabilities. In 2025, the organization delivered 585 creative arts classes serving 731 participants, with total class attendance of 4,751 across five partner organizations. Programs included visual arts, creative writing, music, movement, and improvisation, fostering self-expression, connection, and personal growth in supportive community settings. Beyond the classroom, Intoto facilitated opportunities for participants to share their creative work through community events and performances, connecting participants with broader audiences and reducing stigma associated with homelessness, mental illness, addiction, and disability. These events provided platforms for artistic expression and community engagement while reinforcing participant confidence and visibility. The organization also supported participant advancement through creative opportunities, including commissions and stipends for artistic work. In 2025, $6,863 in commissions were offered to participants, providing meaningful income opportunities and reinforcing the value of creative practice as a pathway for empowerment and stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.