Sonoma Art School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990883262
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Healdsburg, CA, USA
Phone
7073442248
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,780
Expenses
$50,035
Assets
$4,888

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Kelly Ebeling (Board Chair)
  • David Howard (Treasurer)
  • Bob Casagrande (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Making Arts Education Accessible to All ? Sonoma Art School provides inclusive visual arts education programs for children, teens, adults, and underserved community members throughout northern Sonoma County. The organization offers classes, workshops, camps, and community arts programs, while providing full and partial scholarships to individuals and families with financial need to ensure access regardless of economic circumstances.

What it reported doing in 2025

1. Youth & Family Visual Arts Education Programs Sonoma Art School provided year-round visual arts classes, workshops, camps, and enrichment programs for children and families throughout northern Sonoma County. Programs included after-school classes, Saturday art programs, summer camps, and no-school mini camps in mixed media, ceramics, drawing, painting, and nature-based arts education. These programs served children ages 2.5?17 and encouraged creativity, confidence, and lifelong engagement in the arts. Serving 337 students over the year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 91% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.