Off the Lane Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833323252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126861876
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Service Organizations and Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,036
- Expenses
- $83,016
- Assets
- $53,953
- Liabilities
- $579
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- KRISTAL ZUR (DIRECTOR)
- JILLIAN SCHIRALLI (VICE PRESIDE)
- CHRISTINE SCHERMERHORN (SECRETARY)
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
To provide outreach services to enrich and educate our creative community that entails workshops, grants and other similar resources thereby furthering the ability for such participants to gain the personal success they seek.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach programs are specifically geared towards giving back to the arts community. The mentorship program pairs vetted professionals in the creative arts with motivated juniors and seniors at the university level as well as young professionals aged 18 and older to help transition them from student to professional. In 2024 the program had 23 mentees graduate from the mentorship program. The organiztion also has a boost program that implements tailored challenges for early career artists looking to progress towards their specific goals. The aim is to guide the artistic community to keep them one step ahead looking towards the future instead of working paycheck to paycheck. There were two participants in this program in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
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: -50.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.