Liberty Childrens Art Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383250430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Marquette, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9063459355
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,866
- Expenses
- $38,166
- Assets
- $86,004
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carol Phillips (Executive Director)
- Claire Rose (President)
- Jane Gertz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carol Phillips (Executive Director)
- Claire Rose (President)
- Jane Gertz (Vice President)
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
Art Experience to Youth
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide After School & Summer Hands on art experienceto youth, primarily in Marquette and Alger county
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.