Jekyll Island Arts Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237389151
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Jekyll Island, GA, USA
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$164,047
Expenses
$57,062
Assets
$444,591
Liabilities
$36,546

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Beverly Hopkins (President)
  • Christie Kinsey (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • David Hamer (Director)
  • Jackie Becker (Director)
  • Steve Hartman (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To foster the artistic, cultural, literary and educational development of Jekyll Island residents and visitors.

What it reported doing in 2025

The JIAA, a non-profit, all volunteer organization, is dedicated to the endowment and promotion of the arts among its members. It has free monthly exhibits, two musical concerts and presents programs in varied disciplines. At the festival and the holiday events members exhibit their skills and student artists also present their work. Entries, across all media, are judged and displayed during the festival. Many members exhibit, teach, and display their work for sale.All members have been involved in the campus expansion (part of the old firehouse) and donations to the capital campaign have been solicited. A bake sale was held in March to benefit the Singers to offset some of the expense of their concerts. A bake sale was held in December to benefit the Campus Expansion Fund.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 61% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 73
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 65.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.79; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 48/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.