Rutherford Arts Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832801025
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6157143650
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,677
- Expenses
- $171,793
- Assets
- $82,075
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Lysyczyn (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Susan Gulley (Treasurer)
- Jeff Lysyczyn (Executive Director)
- Gale Stoner (Board Chair)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
"to connect creatives and community" - we are a networking organization that promotes all genres of the Arts within the community and to work with corporations, civic organizations and local governments to increase the collaboration for more cultural arts opportunities for all persons in the community; also to provide support for artists through workshops, trainings, collaborations, and opportunities to undergird their craft and gather support amongst a fellow artists.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarships for students with financial need within the public school system to provide art/instrument supplies - 9 students were assisted with scholarships for the full school year
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 82.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 59.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.