Morro Bay Art Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237136223
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Morro Bay, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057722504
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,494
- Expenses
- $148,011
- Assets
- $436,377
- Liabilities
- $12,778
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHLEEN HEIL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN HEIL (PRESIDENT)
- JANET HILLSON (SECRETARY)
- SHANNON LARSON (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide a venue to display and sell art by local artists and to provide art education to the community. Our galleries serve about 200 local artists and welcome about 3,000 guests per year. Art demonstrations open to the public provide education to 25 or more people per month. Public receptions welcome 25 - 60 guests and members per show, nine to ten times per year. Art in the park is attended by thousands every memorial day weekend, july 4th weekend, and labor day weekend. Our children's program serves about 75 children per year, and our scholarship program presents awards to about forty high school and college students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Morro bay art association offers nine gallery exhibits a year, with each exhibit hanging four to five weeks. Each show offers members the opportunity to show and sell work. In addition, with each show, members or local artist groups are designated as "featured artists." each individual or group of featured artists advertises the exhibit throughout the region. Receptions for shows are usually attended by fifty or more members and other visitors. During most of the year the gallery is open daily from noon until four. Interested community residents, members, and tourists visit to view shows or purchase art. A nominal % of each sale provides revenue for gallery operating expenses and student scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.1%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.1% of revenue deployed · 51.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.