Raw Talent Performing Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900882912
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,030
Expenses
$104,844
Assets
$39,631
Liabilities
$31,436

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Omouzuwa Seymour-EL (Executive Director Teaching Artist)
  • Aki Seymour-EL (Vice President Music Director)

People named in this filing

  • Omouzuwa Seymour-EL (Executive Director Teaching Artist)
  • Aki Seymour-EL (Vice President Music Director)
  • Betty Seymour (Administrative Assistant)

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

To advocate a healthy environment for the youth by promoting the arts within the community and public schools.

What it reported doing in 2025

TO ADVOCATE A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR THE YOUTH BY PROMOTING THE ARTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. We were awarded grants from the following organizations: Hulesbosch Foundation - $14K; IL Art Council - $ 2500; Healing IL Field Foundation - $14,784.00

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.6%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 29.4%; rating input score 29

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -24.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 40.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 68% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.6% of revenue deployed · 29.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.