Lemon Street Gallery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391975575
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kenosha, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2626054745
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,519
- Expenses
- $144,698
- Assets
- $112,402
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shelby Nesmith (Executive Director)
- Lisa Conohan (Vice President)
- Melodie Shepard (President)
People named in this filing
- Shelby Nesmith (Executive Director)
- Missy Isely-Poltrock (Gallery Associate)
- Don Cress (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
To bring visual art education to the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cooperative Gallery for member artists to display their work for sale to the general public
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.3%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.3% of revenue deployed · 1.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.