South Broadway Art Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640962169
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $324,622
- Expenses
- $342,888
- Assets
- $591,454
- Liabilities
- $342,888
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Rye Bliss (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Sarah Rye Bliss (Executive Director): $148,500 total reported compensation
- Timothy S Bliss (Facilities Director): $139,000 total reported compensation
- Jamie Harris (Teaching Artist): $54,738 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
South Broadway Art Project has a mission to teach young people and adults how to enhance their own lives and community through art as well as serving as a local and regional source of creative inspiration for neighbors visitors professional artists and students of all ages. We do this by offering affordable and free visual art education programs for young people and adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kids pottery classes learn how to work with their hands as a way to become more visually literate which is an essential way for young people to better understand themselves and the world around them. Teaching young people how to enhance their own lives and community through all things clay ceramics and pottery is an integral part of learning about and making art at SBAP in St. Louis.Students will learn all about and experience clay from its most primitive forms and techniques to more modern methodologies and practice. Some clay classes focus more on wheel work while others focus more on hand-building skills and projects. Pottery for children have a broad theme that encourages imaginative experimentation and creative risk-taking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 68.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 57.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $198K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.