Mt Vernon Festivals Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455380442
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Mount Vernon, IL, USA
Phone
6182423151
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Celebrations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$112,174
Expenses
$129,164
Assets
$8,451

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON HULBERT (President)
  • LISA DAMRON (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • JASON HULBERT (President)
  • LISA DAMRON (Vice President)
  • ANGELA SCHRUM (Executive Dir.)

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

Celebrating creativity through a series of festivals, mt. Vernon festivals, inc. Will organize and operate the best festivals in the country in order to earn and maintain mt. Vernon's festival arts city reputation. Mt. Vernon's festivals will be known for embracing the extraordinary and providing creativity with a twist in mt. Vernon, Illinois where creativity is constantly being redefined.

What it reported doing in 2024

Organize and operate the best festivals in the country in order to earn and maintain mt. Vernon's festival arts city reputation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 29.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.