Inverted Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273029065
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Owatonna, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7635670780
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,465
- Expenses
- $140,798
- Assets
- $12,852
- Liabilities
- $650
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Collier (President & Director)
People named in this filing
- Mark Collier (President & Director)
- Nancy Ackerman (Secretary & Director)
- Bret Deneson (Treasurer & Director)
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
Empower young people to overcome challenges through art
What it reported doing in 2025
Kenya Mathare Community - Provided 4-year scholarship awards for students who have graduated from Mathare Community Outreach and are furthering their artistic studies at a college level. Provided resources and management for an annual Art Camp for 75-100 students led by Kenyan Artist Mentors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
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: -7.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.