Queer Spectra Arts Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845002609
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 7209712911
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,828
- Expenses
- $15,973
- Assets
- $58,226
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mindy Young (Chair)
- Emma Sargent (Vice Chair)
- Wynter Storm (Board Member)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Queer Spectra Arts Festival aims to present a diverse array of voices, backgrounds, experiences, cultures, mediums, and artistic disciplines in order to celebrate queer artistic expressions. The Festival challenges and contributes to contemporary understanding of queer discourse while promoting nuanced conversations between artists and audiences about queer identity and art.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Queer Spectra Arts Festival hosted the 6th annual interdisciplinary arts festival which featured 46 artists of all artistic backgrounds. The festival included two keynote addresses, two performances, two artists panels, an artist networking event, and two interdisciplinary workshops. These events fostered community building and nuanced conversations about queer identity, experiences, and artmaking. A 2024 festival attendee shared, "Queer Spectra Art Festival provides artistic opportunity and space for LGBTQ+ community support. As art spaces and shows often gatekeep queer artists and how they showcase their work, the Queer Spectra Art Festival wholeheartedly supports and welcomes a wide range of diverse artists of different skill levels and medium."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.3%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.65; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.3% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.