Northern Indiana Clay Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920530070
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Goshen, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5749039731
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,659
- Expenses
- $54,139
- Assets
- $48,828
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Trevor Daugherty (Executive Director)
- Justin Rothshank (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Trevor Daugherty (Executive Director)
- Justin Rothshank (Board President)
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
Northern Indiana Clay Alliance advances ceramic arts education and community engagement in the Michiana region by providing programming, resources and events that support artists, students and arts enthusiasts, while working toward a permanent facility to sustain and expand its mission long-term.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Michiana Spring Clay Tour is an annual self-guided studio tour held each spring, designed to provide NICA members at all experience levels an accessible opportunity to open their studios to the public and sell their work directly to buyers. With 19 locations, the tour is intentionally inclusive, open to all NICA members rather than a curated selection, lowering the barrier to entry and giving emerging artists meaningful exposure alongside more established makers. The tour serves a complementary role to the fall Michiana Pottery Tour, extending NICA's economic support for ceramic artists across two seasons. For participating artists, it provides a structured platform to build a customer base, develop their public presence and generate direct sales revenue. For visitors, it offers an intimate look into working studios across the Michiana region and an opportunity to engage directly with the ceramic arts community. The program benefits NICA members across a range of career stages and backgrounds, with particular value for newer artists who may not yet have the profile or following to drive traffic independently. By organizing and marketing the tour collectively, NICA amplifies reach for all participants while building broader regional awareness of the ceramic arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 59.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.