Positively Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452847061
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-1,527
Expenses
$20,594
Assets
$48,768

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PILITA SIMPSON (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • PILITA SIMPSON (CEO)
  • ALANA KOHL (Chairman)
  • YINGHUA CHEN (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

Positively arts is a 501 c3 non-profit that empowers kids for life by building confidence through performance and artistic discovery. We fortify students' social and emotional development by providing the tools, positive outlets, and community support through which kids can develop the confidence and resilience they need to excel in every aspect of their lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Get Launched Vegas recreates the demanding and occasionally disheartening audition process within a supportive, encouraging, and secure environment. We guide students in confronting adversity with a hopeful outlook, instilling in them the belief that each rejection leads to new opportunities. Throughout this experience, we emphasize self-love at every step, ensuring our students develop a strong sense of worthiness.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,448.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.