Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860850880
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone
5206245019
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Art Museums

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$858,543
Expenses
$872,617
Assets
$384,073
Liabilities
$296,003

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIRA DIXON-WEINSTEIN (IMMEDIDATE PATE PRESIDENT)
  • DANNY VINIK (PRESIDENT)
  • LAURAN PEW (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JULIO CESAR MORALES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JULIO CESAR MORALES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $74,872 total reported compensation
  • LAURA COPELAND (DUEPTY DIRECTOR/CURATOR): $73,614 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Moca tucson inspires new ways of thinking through the cultivation, exhibition, and interpretation of contemporary art. This is accomplished with exhibitions, research, public education programs, and artist in residence programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, the museum of contemporary art (moca) tucson served nearly 16,000 individuals, including over 7,000 youth who received on-site and classroom-based arts learning opportunities through museum education programs. Moca produced and presented over 42 public programs ranging from artist-led workshops, book launches for local authors, poetry readings, music concerts, screenings, performances, conversations, and more, which served approximately 5,500 adults. Through the museum's free, year-round education initiatives, moca reached thousands of youth in our communities, including lgbtqia+ identifying individuals and title i students at 86 public schools, and provided bilingual programming to over 1,000 students. Over the year, moca hosted six exhibitions, including: - sofa crdova: sin agua , february 2 - june 23, 2024 - sara hubbs and sarah zapata: between gravity and ground , february 2 - june 23, 2024 - fay ray: portals , march 8 - september 22, 2024 - caconrad: 500 places at once , september 13, 2024 - february 16, 2025 - karima walker: graves for the rain , september 13, 2024 - february 16, 2025 - juan obando and yoshua okn: demo , october 11, 2024 - february 9, 2025 furthermore, moca directly supported over 100 individual artists in 2024 through exhibitions, residencies, programs, and disbursed $60,000 in grant funding.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 80
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $622K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.