Positive Images of Self-Expression
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330772110
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,428
- Expenses
- $26,250
- Assets
- $2,298
- Liabilities
- $7,312
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sheryl Harris (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sheryl Harris (Executive Director)
- Bakari Anderson (Director)
- LaNet Love (Director)
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
Providing educational performing arts modeling and cultural awareness services to the general public; advancing cultural equity inclusion and arts access through global programming.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization paid Impact Kenya Grants totaling 19,318.72 during the 2025 tax year. These grants support arts education cultural programming and community development in Kenya consistent with the organizations exempt purpose of advancing cultural equity and arts access through global programming.
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 74% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- 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: 10.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.18; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $26K 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: 2 filing years from 2012 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.