Skopelos Foundation for the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541936855
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,012
- Expenses
- $52,348
- Assets
- $249,671
- Liabilities
- $17,011
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jill Ann Somer (Director)
- Scott Somer (Treasurer)
- Amy Rogacki (Director)
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
Our primary purpose is to support and promote artists through cultural exchange artist residencies and educational programs that foster artistic expression cross-cultural understanding and community engagement. Through our artist residency program we provide artists with opportunities to develop their creative work engage with local communities and participate in meaningful cultural exchange. We also serve underserved and economically disadvantaged youth through educational and community-based programs including our youth film festival and related events. These programs provide young people with opportunities to experience the arts develop creative skills engage with diverse cultures and participate in meaningful educational and cultural activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization has contributed to the Skopelos community through a variety of educational cultural and artistic programs. These activities have included painting community murals and providing educational classes and creative programs for local children. Our most significant community initiative is the Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth SIFFY. SIFFY brings professional filmmakers from America and other countries to Skopelos to work directly with local children in the creation of original films. Through this program children have the opportunity to develop skills in filmmaking storytelling collaboration communication and creative expression while working alongside experienced professionals from different cultural backgrounds. Over the past 15 years SIFFY has produced 184 films and has provided opportunities for hundreds of children and American and international filmmakers to participate in the program. The festival is supported by a substantial volunteer effort with more than 50 individuals volunteering each year to assist with the program and its activities. The festival also receives significant in-kind support from the local community of Skopelos. Local businesses residents and community members contribute resources such as food transportation and accommodations helping make it possible for the program to serve children and host participating filmmakers. Through these activities our organization promotes education cultural exchange artistic development and community engagement. SIFFY in particular provides a sustained educational and cultural benefit to the children of Skopelos while also bringing international creative professionals to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.77; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.