Rochester Arts & Lectures Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161353389
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2015
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Rochester, NY, USA
Phone
5855468658
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Humanities Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$145,329
Expenses
$179,035
Assets
$83,856
Liabilities
$42,565

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrea Weinstein (President/Producer)

People named in this filing

  • Andrea Weinstein (President/Producer)
  • Ronald F Dow PhD (Executive Board Member)
  • John Lovenheim (Executive 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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Literary arts lecture series for the Rochester community.

What it reported doing in 2015

A cultural organization designed to produce an annual series of lectures by distinquished writers and artists respected for their contributions to literature, criticism, art, science and public affairs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.