IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363772452
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3122439088
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,926,492
Expenses
$2,283,420
Assets
$11,131,743
Liabilities
$2,335,211

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Debra Kerr (President & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Debra Kerr (President & CEO): $104,988 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Intuit champions the diverse voices of self-taught art, welcoming both new and familiar audiences. Intuit is a premier museum of self-taught artalso known as outsider art. These artists typically work outside the mainstream and may have faced societal, economic or geographic barriers to a traditional path of art making. The museums mission is grounded in the ethos that art can be found anywhere and made by anyone. The instinct to create is universal and the arts must embrace, represent and be accessible to all. Chicago is recognized as one of the first places in the nation to embrace self-taught art as a legitimate genre, ultimately leading to Intuit being formed in 1991 by a group of artists, collectors, art dealers and art enthusiasts devoted to outsider art. Today, Intuit is renovating and expanding its facility into a modern, welcoming museumscheduled to reopen in 2025in service of its vision to be the leading museum advocate for self-taught art. The renovation will: triple exhibit

What it reported doing in 2025

Education - Programs are built around each year's exhibitions, typically 3-5 significant exhibits featuring work by outsider and self-taught artists. Intuit's key public programs include: A) Teacher Fellowship Program: 20-24 Chicago Public School teachers attend professional development sessions at Intuit and create interdisciplinary curricula meeting common core standards. The program culminates in a month-long student exhibition at the museum at the end of the school year. B) IntuiTeens Youth Program: 12 teens participate in a summer internship program in which they develop and teach peer-to-peer art workshops at teen and public-facing spaces such as Blind Services Association. The program is intended to sustain long-term arts and civic engagement of teenagers, particularly those in under-served communities. C) Public Art-Making Workshops: Intuit offers a creative space for individuals to transform personal found materials into works of art and express themselves. D) Art After Work: A monthly, Thursday evening do-it-yourself workshop series, targeted at Millennials, which typically attracts 30-50 guests from diverse backgrounds. E) Events: Intuit hosts multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary events for the public, including artist, curator and expert talks; film screenings; and field trips and travel tours. F) The Outsider: Intuit's annual publication features articles related to Intuit's current exhibitions and happenings in the genre of outsider art.

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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 34.8%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 53.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.88; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 34.8% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 28 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.