Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237401416
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 8772702772
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Higher Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $331,786
- Expenses
- $319,979
- Assets
- $58,932
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alan Roberts (Board President, Artistic Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Alan Roberts (Board President, Artistic Director): $15,287 total reported compensation
- Cathleen Keenan (Director of Outreach): $14,212 total reported compensation
- Rose Genochio (Director): $13,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing fosters a diverse, engaged, and art-focused community through the sustained investigation of the mysterious nature and aim of art. Preserving, nurturing, and expanding the pedagogy and artistic legacy of the school is made concrete through ongoing dialogue, educational apprenticeship, and artistic achievement rooted in Aix-en-Provence, France. The Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing is a school of art that seeks to teach its students (people of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels) to see into nature, into works of art, and into themselves through a combination of impactful and immersive educational programs including painting and drawing workshops in Aix-en- Provence, France and beyond, museum study workshops in the United States, online programming, community- building events, and more.
What it reported doing in 2024
Imagination & Form in Great Works of Art: A Museum Study Seminar in New York, New York (October 2024): A wonderful group of 13 participants gathered in New York City from Friday, October 25th through Sunday, October 27th, 2024 for a long-weekend museum study seminar: Imagination & Form in Great Works of Art, which drew upon art historian Lionello Venturis book, Painting and Painters - How to Look at a Picture, From Giotto to Chagall. The group went on a deep dive into the imaginations of some of the great artists represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum seminar included texts by renowned artists, writers, and thinkers as the group spent extensive time discussing together what they found while taking long looks at artworks to discover meaning through the form of each work of art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 69% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 59.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 62.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.