Salmon River Fine Arts Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161405872
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Pulaski, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3152987007
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,164
- Expenses
- $97,236
- Assets
- $65,951
- Liabilities
- $664
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Buchau (Director & President)
People named in this filing
- Diane Melnik (Director (thru 05/25))
- Kate Walsh (Director (thru 05/25))
- Mary Price (Director (thru 06/25))
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
Educational - Fine Arts Gallery
What it reported doing in 2025
Classes & Workshops: Classes continued on an in-person basis this year, with the exception of our Free Weekly Drawing class which is held on-line and available for members and anyone residing in the area and neighboring counties. Our Teen/Adult program held 11 multiple day workshops in ceramics, leather, glass, mosaic and painting, as well as single day classes for more than 70 sessions. The Youth Artists Experience program continued with almost weekly classes (Art Club & Art Camp) for two age groups (5-11 year olds, and middle/high school aged students), and a free bi-weekly (2x/month) senior program continued at a local senior housing complex. All told, we were able to offer over 250 in person classes and 50 virtual classes this fiscal year - (approx. 575 hours of instruction) with over 1200 student attendees. Instruction was provided in drawing, pastels, watercolor, charcoal, acrylic, oils, alcohol ink, pottery (wheel throwing, handbuilding, raku), leather working, fiber arts, jewelry, print making, mixed media, mosaic & glass work and other disciplines & media, for all ages and experience levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
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: -2.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.