Lakewood Arts Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742505392
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Lakewood, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039800625
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,781
- Expenses
- $26,251
- Assets
- $67,253
- Liabilities
- $771
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cathrine Trapp (President)
- Emma Wetherbee (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cathrine Trapp (President)
- Emma Wetherbee (Vice President)
- Kristi Czajkowski (Treasurer)
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
The mission of the Lakewood Arts Council is to increase awareness of the arts and arts activities in Lakewood, Colorado and the surrounding community. The vision of the organization is to cultivate and celebrate community arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
During Lakewood Arts Council's (LAC or Lakewood Arts) 35th year we continued our mission of expanding awareness of the arts by actively pursuing opportunities for community outreach. We also added a new component, Adopt-a-School, to our education program. During Lakewood Arts Council's 37th year, the organization continued its mission of providing accessible, community-centered arts programming to residents of Jefferson County and the surrounding area.LAC expanded community outreach through in-gallery programs, including Art in Action and a variety of art demonstrations. The organization also provided arts programming outside the gallery through its Adopt-a-School program and offsite exhibitions at the Lakewood Cultural Center and Peebles Prosthetics.Educational and youth activities included student art exhibitions, school partnerships, community events, and classroom art resources. These programs provided arts experiences and opportunities for students from early childhood through high school, including students attending schools with limited access to arts resources.SCFD funding helped support LAC's year-round arts programming, educational activities, community outreach, exhibitions, and opportunities for local and regional artists to exhibit their work.First Friday receptions celebrated the arts with music, hands-on art projects and demonstrations, and refreshments. We held our third annual Member Appreciation Open House.LAC expanded outreach to area residents with engaging in-house programs such as Art in Action, and varied art demonstrations. Outside of the gallery was the Adopt-aSchool program, and we held offsite exhibits at the Lakewood Cultural Center, Old 121 Brewhouse and Peebles Prosthetics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -143.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.