RISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842611587
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4433100676
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $282,077
- Expenses
- $322,873
- Assets
- $46,233
- Liabilities
- $49,324
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAMMERAN T GIGGERS (Executive Director)
- SHERRYE GIGGERS (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- KAMMERAN T GIGGERS (Executive Director): $40,335 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RISE nutures the well-being and the creative skill set of both neurodivergent and neurotypical youth and young adults in underserved communities through a quality arts education.
What it reported doing in 2025
RISE Performing Arts Summer Camp is a 6-week immersive arts program designed to nuture creativity, confidence, and collaboration youth age 5-14 Participants engage in dynamic creative tracks, including perform arts, visual and prop design, product innovation, and therapeutic arts while also strengthening literacy and social-emotional skills through arts integration. Each day is rooted in community-building, self- expression, and hands-on learning. The experience culminates in a full staged musical production at a professional theatre, where every young person contributes onstage or behind the scenes, showcasing their grow artistic voice, and collective brilliance, demonstrated by serving 30 campers with 100% increased confidence, 82% improvement in reading and
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 51.5%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 51.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $167K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.