Redline Milwaukee Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263817197
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2018
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
4144919088
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$86,551
Expenses
$116,605
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Russ Jankowski (President)

People named in this filing

  • Lori Bauman (Co-founder)
  • Steve Vande Zande (Co-founder)
  • Brian Kilb (Treasurer)

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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Redline Milwaukee is an arts and culture incubator located in a depressed and transitional neighborhood in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The mission of Redline Milwaukee is to serve the community through arts and educational programs with access to all by creating a non-threatening cultural environment. Redline Milwaukee offers a multi-layered program including three specific areas of programming: Professional Artist in residence development, Exhibition programming, and educational programming.

What it reported doing in 2018

Professional artist in residence development: Redline affords 16 professional resident artist in various stages of their careers, studio space. The space is provided to the artists at a charge of $200.00 per month, plus 4 hours of community service per month to be provided by the artist. Market rent is approximately $500.00 per month. In additions, 6 mentoring artists work on site. Each artist Contributes 2 hours of community service per week, or 8 hours per month, to the surrounding neighborhood as a condition of retaining his or her studio space. Redline Milwaukee does not accept payment of commissions or fees from the sale of artists' work. Redline Milwaukee also houses a teen outreach studio, giving 4-5 teens studio space while being mentored by a resident artist.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.9%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 1

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -34.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: -25.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.9% of revenue deployed · 0.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $797 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 1/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.