Key City Creative Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320538342
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Dubuque, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5635647493
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,043
- Expenses
- $96,075
- Assets
- $137,364
- Liabilities
- $15,986
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC ETHIER (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN GRAHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- STEVE GRAHAM (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- ERIC ETHIER (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN GRAHAM (EXECUTIVE 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of key city creative center is to provide tools and space for makers, artists, and entrepreneurs to freely collaborate, learn, create and inspire.
What it reported doing in 2024
Key city creative center provides a 24/7 makerspace, which includes tools and space for makers, artists, and entrepreneurs to freely collaborate, learn, create and inspire. During 2024, 262 persons benefited from this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 31.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.