Pine Center for the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262888114
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Pine City, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3206294924
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,329
- Expenses
- $87,974
- Assets
- $138,654
- Liabilities
- $27,336
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA DEFENBAUGH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LINDA DEFENBAUGH (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER PETERS (VICE PRESIDE)
- NANCY MACH (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community arts programs and education
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide quality lessons, workshops and classes, events that create a positive experience for the community, and monthly exhibitions which highlight local artist.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.