Sedona Arts Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 866052626
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sedona, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9282823809
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,644,416
- Expenses
- $1,722,385
- Assets
- $2,694,097
- Liabilities
- $769,083
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE RICHARD (CEO)
- MELISSA PONTIKES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BERNADETTE CARROLL (COO): $144,927 total reported compensation
- JULIE RICHARD (CEO): $137,624 total reported compensation
- LIZ GREGG (FINANCE MANAGER): $83,627 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sedona arts centers mission is to make the arts a vital part of life in the verde valley to offer educational and cultural programs for residents and visitors to promote and celebrate the works of artists, performers and creative people to advance the role of sedona as a creative place and a leading american arts community
What it reported doing in 2025
School of the arts operation of a nationally recognized year round educational program offering arts education in painting, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and other creative disciplines the promotion of 200 classes, workshops and creative development opportunities each year to residents and visitors in the community
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.2%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.2% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.