Sioux Falls Arts Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460354287
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Phone
6052716696
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,594
Expenses
$104,378
Assets
$219,382
Liabilities
$445

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KELLEN BOICE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JOEL RIECHE (PRESIDENT)
  • SARA TELAHUN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KELLEN BOICE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JOEL RIECHE (PRESIDENT)
  • SARA TELAHUN (VICE 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

The sioux falls arts council strives to create a more vibrant arts community by connecting audiences to the arts, artists to opportunities and connect arts community to co-create, collaborate and coexist together.

What it reported doing in 2025

Accessibility activities: continued to develop features for our website that is a one-click stop for all art and culture happenings in the sioux falls area including an online events calendar, venue map, calls for visual and literary art as well as audition opportunities, explained social media presence through facebook and instagram, and day to day direct constituent contact in office space.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -21.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.