Kentler International Drawing Space Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113621398
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7188752098
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,637
- Expenses
- $144,231
- Assets
- $124,023
- Liabilities
- $1,516
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- FLORENCE NEAL (Director)
- SALLIE MIZE (Executive Dir.)
- ARTHUR CELEDONIA (Chairman)
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
Kentler intl drawing space, founded in 1990, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing contemporary drawings and works on paper by emerging and under-recognized national and international artists to the public, and to providing the opportunity to experiment, explore and expand the definition of art in society our programs include exhibitions and events, k.i.d.s. Art education and the kentler flatfiles.
What it reported doing in 2025
Exhibitions of drawings/works on paper by local, national, and intl artists, hosting artist talks, events, the kentler flatfiles, and k.i.d.s. Art eduction program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: -19.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.