Mt Si Artist Guild

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 300509829
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2016–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location: Snoqualmie, WA, USA
Phone: 4252139321
Rating: 84
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue: $178,136
Expenses: $154,713
Assets: $78,592
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

SYDNEY DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
CHARLENE BURLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

SYDNEY DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
CHARLENE BURLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
MONICA PHILLIPS (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 foster and promote visual fine arts through education, encouragement, and events to artists and the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The art gallery of snovalley and msag provides a space for artists to showcase their work, hold events, hold open studios, house an art library open to the public, and provide encouragement for the community to engage in art.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 68% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 88
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 52
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $147K 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: 10 filing years from 2016 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.

Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.