Ozark Mountain Irish Arts Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205374331
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Springdale, AR, USA
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,657
- Expenses
- $36,042
- Assets
- $69,288
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jerri Dwyer (President)
- Kara Gallagher (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jerri Dwyer (President)
- Kara Gallagher (Vice President)
- Andrea Patitz (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
The mission of the Ozark Mountain Irish Arts Council is to support and promote Irish arts and culture in the Ozark Mountain region. The organization carries out this mission through charitable and educational activities that foster participation in Irish dance music and cultural traditions including hosting cultural events and an annual Irish dance competition in Northwest Arkansas. The Ozark Mountain Irish Arts Council consists of parents and friends of the Irish dance performers through Rince Arkansas Academy of Irish Dance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our largest program service event is a 2 day dance competition the Arkansas State Championship Feis and Diamond State Feis. We hosted 191 dancers on Saturday and 205 dancers on Sunday. Dance competitors perform their traditional dances in front of judges showcasing the rigorous training discipline and stamina needed to advance through the different levels of competition. We brought in 6 adjudicators to judge and 2 musicians to play Irish music. We also celebrated Irish heritage with an Irish artwork competition and Irish soda bread competition. Ours is the only competition in the state of Arkansas and we had competitors travel from 11 states and represented 22 different schools. Our expenses for the event were $28,456 with income of $38,207 for entry fees. Our second largest event was the 2025 Ceilidh Night Fundraiser a traditional social gathering that features live Irish music dance performances Irish food and group dances for guests to participate in. This event allows the community to celebrate the Irish culture while learning traditional dances and enjoying social interaction in a way that the Irish would have done hundreds of years ago. We hosted 159 guests. Our expenses were $2089 for venue rental food and music and our income was $5924 from entry fees silent auction and bake sale. Our third largest event was dance performances during St Patricks Day week. Our dancers travel around Northwest Arkansas showcasing traditional and contemporary Irish dances in fun locations that entertain and interact with the community. The locations include the public library nursing homes breweries restaurants and public spaces during festivals. This is a free service but we did receive donations from individuals and a venue.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.