Santiam Hearts to Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261888922
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Mill City, OR, USA
Phone
5038976397
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,060
Expenses
$42,139
Assets
$86,420
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JoAnn Hebing (President, Director, Chorus director)
  • Ken Cartwright (Vice President, Director, KYAC GM)

People named in this filing

  • JoAnn Hebing (President, Director, Chorus director)
  • Ken Cartwright (Vice President, Director, KYAC GM)
  • Jeff Keto (Secretary, Treasurer, Director)

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

Promote arts and music in the Santiam Canyon.

What it reported doing in 2025

Art & Music: Regular events & activities are held in historic Stewart's Hall including community chorus, KYAC music concerts and art activities. The Santiam Canyon Community Chorus held weekly chorus practices and had several public performances during the year. Art Mart held monthly art fairs with local vendors filling the available space. Community dances including instruction, for all ages, were held from fall to spring. The KYAC community concert series held 8 acoustic concerts with a large appreciative audience for each concert. All activities were well attended and supported by the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91

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: 32.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.