Mid-atlantic Regional School of Professional Photography
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223441105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Stratford, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6097788077
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,218
- Expenses
- $123,164
- Assets
- $150,803
- Liabilities
- $35,384
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOHN CAPONE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- GARY LLOYD (ASSOC. DIREC)
- STEVE CLARK (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
To conduct a one week program to educate professional and aspiring photographers.
What it reported doing in 2025
The school conducts a one week program which consists of workshops for educating professional and aspiring photographers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.