Sculpture Space Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222197162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Utica, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157248381
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $235,520
- Expenses
- $200,465
- Assets
- $927,621
- Liabilities
- $2,919
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH GIRUZZI ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- VICTORIA MELE ZACEK (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH GIRUZZI ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- VICTORIA MELE ZACEK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHARLIE FISHER (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sculpture Space supports the creation and advancement of contemporary sculpture through residency programs that provide artists with studio facilities, housing, stipends, and opportunities for experimentation, fabrication and puplic engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sculpture Space is an internationally recognized residency program supporting contemporary sculpture and interdisciplinary practice During the reporting period, the organization provided artist with studio space, housing, technical resources, stipends and opportunities for experimentation and fabrication in Utica, New York. Sculpture Space hosted resident artist from across the United States and internationally through short-term and long-term residency opportunities. In addition to supporting the creation of new work, the organization facilitated public engagement through open studios, artist talks, exibitions, workshops and educational partnerships with regional institutions. Sculpture Space continued its mission of advancing public awareness of contempoary sculpture while contributing to the cultural vitality of the Mohawk Valley region.
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
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.