Sault Area Arts Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
382191987
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Sault Ste Marie, MI, USA
Phone
9066351312
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$136,132
Expenses
$136,720
Assets
$32,954
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Agatha Colbert (Chairperson and Director)
  • Scott Laursen (Vice Chairperson and Director)
  • Catherine Chenoweth (Treaurer and 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

Provide a means and retail space for artists to display and sell their work. Provide a space for art instruction and information. Advertise the availability of arts related classes and educational information. Hold gallery shows featuring different styles of art for display and sale. Provide outreach to the surrounding communities with information and access to all types of visual art.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided a means for artists to display and sell their work. Provided space for art instruction for county residents, including veterans, seniors, students, Native Americans, as well as tourists to the area. Advertised the availability of arts related classes and gallery showings via local publications, social media and multiple arts-related internet sites. Held gallery shows featuring artwork for display and sale. Held lectures to disseminate art education and historical knowledge. Established working relationships with local Tribes to promote art and opportunities for Tribal members and the general populations to learn and share native skills and art forms.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 66% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 25
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 24

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 46.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 24.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.