Sedona Arts Festival

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 860632392
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2014–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Sedona, AZ, USA
Phone: 9282049456
Rating: 57
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue: $67,802
Expenses: $86,032
Assets: $85,958

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JULIE RICHARD (CEO)

People named in this filing

JULIE RICHARD (CEO)
MELISSA PONIKES (Chairman)
LORI REINHART (Chairman)

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

The sedona arts festival increases awareness and exposure to the arts while enhancing a sense of the community. It contributes to art programs and scholarships in the greater sedona area.

What it reported doing in 2025

The sedona arts festival takes place annually to showcase artists from all over the united states.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 44
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 23
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
Program expense ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -26.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 47%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 37.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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 48/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.