Pasadena Art Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237429349
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6267959276
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $509,541
- Expenses
- $461,723
- Assets
- $1,057,362
- Liabilities
- $71,941
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA O'CONNOR (PRESIDENT)
- GINA KNOX (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANNALY BENNETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAURA O'CONNOR (PRESIDENT)
- GINA KNOX (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SUZANNE HOLDER (RECORDING 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization fosters appreciation of contemporary visual arts in southern California by supporting artists, exhibitions, educational programs & other art-oriented nonprofit organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing grants to exhibitions, educational programs and other art-oriented non-profit institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 79% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $408K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 37 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.