Seattle Print Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912010683
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063002526
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,806
- Expenses
- $39,742
- Assets
- $60,073
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charlie Spitzack (President)
People named in this filing
- Patrick Connelly (Treasurer)
- Kerstin Graudins (Director)
- Charlie Spitzack (President)
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
Seattle Print Arts is organized to advance the art of printmaking by providing educational programs, exhibitions, professional development, and community-building opportunities for artists, students, and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Seattle Print Arts provides free and low-cost programming to support printmakers and expand public access to print arts education and community engagement. A bi-monthly newsletter is available free of charge to anyone who subscribes. Annual artist funding opportunities include the Kristen T. Ramirez Fellowship for Latine Printmakers, the Larry Sommers Fellowship, and the Pratt/SPA Partner Grant, all offered without application fees. Members and the public are encouraged to participate in exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, demonstrations, exchanges, open houses, and community events throughout the year. In 2025, programming included the Annual Print Exchange, Poster Syndicate events, Gallery Frames Workshops, postcard exchanges, artist talks and demos, seasonal exhibitions and sales, and community gatherings, including the Holiday Sale and Holiday Party. Approximately 1,500 individuals participated in SPA programs and activities during 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
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: 54.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.