Silicon Valley Visual Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770498110
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Campbell, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502082503
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,099
- Expenses
- $88,952
- Assets
- $53,062
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA NYSTROM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LINDA NYSTROM (PRESIDENT)
- LINDA J TOLL (TREASURER)
- BARBARA PEASE (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to support and promote the visual arts as a vital ingredient of the unique and diverse society of the bay area. We help both emerging and professional artists connect with other artists and art lovers throughout the bay area, as well as assisting the efforts of other bay area arts and charitable organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Silicon valley open studios: the event of the year brings together artists from all over the sf bay area at their home studios, local galleries, and art clubs to showcase and sell art. Silicon valley open studios, commonly called svos supports hundereds of artists who open their studios each year to art lovers and buyers for an up-close look into their creative processes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.