Siskiyou Arts Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680267433
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2012
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Mount Shasta, CA, USA
Phone
5309380130
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Reported finances

Revenue
$166,505
Expenses
$187,706
Assets
$36,735

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the siskiyou arts council is to value creativity, promote education and excite our community's participation in the visual, performing and literary arts.

What it reported doing in 2012

The siskiyou arts council (sac) strives to meet the arts needs of our rural county's residents. Sac has made a commitment to arts education and we fulfill our mission through the arts bus project, a mobile classroom created on a retired school bus instruction includes watercolor, acrylics painting, sculpture; an after-school theater program for dunsmuir high school students; music and movement classes for toddlers 2-6 years old and their parents; sac partners with the far northern regional center in art matters, art classes for adults with developmental disabilities; court school arts programs that include instructions in the literary, visual and performing arts for incarcerated youth; sac participates in the national endowment for the arts initiative, poetry out loud working with county-wide high schools; and a art material & techniques class for siskiyou county special day class students.sac has a gallery & culture center. The gallery is run as a co-operative and a rotating gallery space with themed show where county-wide artists can participate. The gallery features artists of the month, who are selected from our web sites artists registry. The artist of the month is often a musician, writer or other non-visual artists. The cultural center is used by a couple of different poetry groups, painting classes, and community and board meetings.sac partners with the scott valley bank to present the summer concerts in the park series, scott valley chamber of commerce to present the etna blue grass festival, California poets in the schools for a variety of literary events throughout the year, and the all string summit concert, a concert that is presented after two-weeks of music camp where students receive instruction by world class musicians.sac makes extensive use of our web site to promote arts and cultural events through our on-line calendar and free arts e-newsletter. We offer a free artists registry web page to all friends of sac. Sac offers artists and arts organizations funding through the grants and gifts program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -12.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2009 to 2012
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.