Rural Arts Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050501353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greensboro, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8025339370
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $531,507
- Expenses
- $595,283
- Assets
- $382,783
- Liabilities
- $132,997
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH MUTRUX (EXECUTIVE DI): $54,148 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission is to cultivate lifelong learning and exploration to enrich our community, schools, and economy through creativity, conversation, and collaboration.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wonderarts: the organization offers accessible and year-round creative and recreational opportunities to youth throughout northeastern Vermont. Wonderarts facilitates after-school and in-school programming at 11 schools, serving 35% of area children, ages 0-18, with enriching programming. School programs cover a vareity of age-appropriate topics ranging from interpretive movement, fiber arts, and songwriting for younger students, to entrrepreneurship, social justice, and community-building for high school teens. The organization provided after-school programming at 5 elementary schools, and in-school programs at 4 pre-schools as well as at craftsbury academy and hazen union high school. During the summer months, the organization offered 6 weeks of full-day camps centered around art, technology, and nature-based themese paired with other outdoor recreation and immersion. Youth programming provided economic opportunities to area professionals, employing independent contractors to lead classes, workshops, and camps. Throughout the year, the organization engaged community members of all ages, 18 - 100+, through enriching social, creative, and recreational opportunities and events. The organization hosted community meals and gatherings, film screenings and discussions, creative classes and skill-shares, art exhibitions and concerts, as well as snowshoe hikes. During our 8th annual holiday market, the organization showcased local vendors, encouraging community members to shop locally for their holiday gifts. During an evening of fun and games at our annual summer celebration and fundraiser, which welcomed 130+ adults and children, the organization featured local musicians, food, and works of art in recognition of the creativity and collaborations fostered within our community. In addition to our monthly and annual events and activities, the organization also owns and maintains a community greenspace that is open to the public for recreational use. The property features nature trails, a performance stage, and a wildlife observation platform and is used as a hands-on resource for local students, families, and recreation-seekers to engage with the natural environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $500K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.