Montgomery County Art Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521744143
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Kensington, MD, USA
Phone
4087186822
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,260
Expenses
$88,998
Assets
$95,915
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sylvia Douglin (President)
  • Lily Kak (Vice President, Member Programs)
  • Kathleen Tynan (Vice President, Shows)
  • Teresa Sites (Vice President, Communications)

People named in this filing

  • Sylvia Douglin (President)
  • Lily Kak (Vice President, Member Programs)
  • Kathleen Tynan (Vice President, Shows)

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 promote visual arts in Montgomery County, Maryland.

What it reported doing in 2025

Member Activities: Provide art education in application and theory through multiple activities, including Figure Model Drawing sessions (19 sessions); Plein Air events (13 sessions); Workshops (3 sessions); Field Trips to Museums and Art Centers (1 session) and Member Meetings (4 sessions). Activities are open to all members and for a higher fee, to non-member public. Over 300 members participated in these activities in this Fiscal Year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.