Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222710493
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Augusta, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2073108187
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,347
- Expenses
- $27,587
- Assets
- $52,786
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Victoria Cherry (Acting President, Treasurer, Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Victoria Cherry (Acting President, Treasurer, Secretary)
- Paul Fullam (Director)
- Jeri Pitcher (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
Encourage Promote Strengthen and Advocate for Arts Education
What it reported doing in 2024
Building Community Through the Arts (BCTA) Conference
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.9%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34% of revenue deployed · 48.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.