Rare Bird
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992288733
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Hot Springs, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8434081908
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,932
- Expenses
- $137,819
- Assets
- $64,244
- Liabilities
- $858
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Farrah Hoffmire (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Farrah Hoffmire (Executive Director)
- Libby Rodenbough (Arts Program Coordinator)
- Karen Parson (Board 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
We create and host cultural programming in our rural Appalachian community, with a focus on inclusion of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the fostering of various traditional and contemporary arts and folk practices.
What it reported doing in 2025
Music and folk cultural programming: We host concerts and workshops that provide a vital meeting ground for people from our rural community and people from the nearby city of Asheville. This programming sustains traditional arts and practices such as ballad singing, basket weaving, and Appalachian dance and also brings practitioners of contemporary and experimental forms into conversation with such traditions. We have about 300 attendees at each of our three annual festivals; 40-100 attendees at each of our 5-10 annual concerts; and 10-30 attendees at each of our 5-10 annual workshops.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
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: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.