Ruskin Art Club Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

RUSKIN ART CLUB EVENTS: FISCAL 2023-2024Through mounting virtual in addition to live, in-person events, we have been able to expand and diversify audiences served by our events. Attendees come from Southern California and the West, but also from the East Coast and abroad. Membership in the organization has also expanded to include members across the United States and the UK.In addition, we launched our Ruskin Art Club YouTube channel in 2021, which archives all our current programs and many from the recent past as a service both to members and friends and as an ongoing resource for the public. It is available on our website: www.ruskinartclub.org. The channel expands the outreach of our activities to online subscribers and YouTube audiences. We currently post more than 100 events, lectures, and presentations on our channel. To indicate the extent of our outreach to the public, I have added the current number of YouTube views to Zoom and in-person attendance figures.JULY-AUGUSTField trips: [in person]Saturday, August 24, 2-5pm: Judson Studios TourWork in Progress: Pagoda by James JeanFee: $20Attendance: 60Expenses: $0Income: $1,200 (memberships): (2) $150SEPTEMBERFriday, Sept. 6: Apricot Lane Farms private tour [in person]9-11am, fee: $35Expenses: $1,200Attendance: 15Income: $310 + 2 memberships: $225 = $535Saturdays, September 7&14, 10-11:30am [Zoom]Study sessions: (thematic) America in Ruskins writingsAttendance: 12Expenses: $0Saturday, Sept. 21, 9-10:30am [PDT] Annual Ruskin Lifetime Achievement Award (with Ruskin Society of North America): Robert Hewison Tribute [Zoom]Attendance: 30Expenses: $0Income: $0YouTube: 928 viewsOCTOBERFriday, October 4 (evening) Saturday, Oct. 5 (morning/afternoon)RUSKIN IN AMERICA ConferenceFriday, Oct. 4: Keynote address at Telescope Studio with receptionSaturday, Oct. 5: Doheny Library all day (with lunch), 10am-4:30pm. Six presentations and a panel discussion.For a man who never set foot in America, John Ruskin, at the turn of the twentieth century, wielded an outsized influence on art, environmental, and social movements in this country. This is a fact often underappreciated in assessments of Ruskin's global impact. From the American Pre-Raphaelites to utopian social experiments in Florida, Georgia, and California, Ruskin's vision inspired many facets of American idealism and social reform. This conference, the first of its kind, will explore Ruskin's contributions to American movements, thinkers, and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries and suggest ways in which he speaks to the issues of American life today.List of speakers: Gabriel Meyer keynote, Ruskin and the California DreamSara Atwood, Over-hopefulness and getting on-ness: Ruskin, Nature, and America Virginia Anderson: The Artist Is a Telescope: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore, and the American Pre-Raphaelite MovementGray Brechin, Ruskins Influence on Franklin Roosevelts New DealSharon Weltman, Thinking Ecologically with Ruskin, or How Women Will Save the WorldAttendance: 50Expenses: $1,892.15Income: (2 memberships): $300YouTube: 432 views (total)Saturday, October 19: LA Archives Bazaar (USC), all dayExpenses: $1,000Income: $0NOVEMBERNovember 9 & 16, 9-10:30am [PST]: Study sessions: The Mystery of Life and Its Arts with Rachel DickinsonAttendance: 27Expenses: $0Income: (3 memberships, $300)YouTube: 129/639 viewsWednesday, Nov. 20 (Fogg Fellows), 12:30-1:30pm [EST]: Marjorie Cohn: Ruskin and the Origins of Art History at Harvard [Zoom]The Ruskin Art Club has received a very special invitation to join the Fellows of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University on a ZOOM event, a lecture by Dr. Marjorie Cohn about Ruskin and the beginnings of the museum and the teaching of art history as a result of the friendship of John Ruskin and Harvard President Charles Eliot Norton.2025JANUARYSaturday, January 18, 10-11:30am [PST]: Marjorie Cohn: John Ruskin, James Whistler, and the Ghost of Turner [Zoom]The artist James Whistler sued the critic John

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 61.6%; rating input score 62
• Fundraising efficiency: $1.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.17; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 47.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings