Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270577501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chamblee, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6782354328
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,122
- Expenses
- $138,000
- Assets
- $158,436
- Liabilities
- $5,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Diana Quinn (President)
- Kristen Nicholas (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Diana Quinn (President)
- Kristen Nicholas (Vice President)
- Roxanne Brown (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SEFAA's mission is to (1) provide seminars, classes, workshops, and other educational events on fiber art topics, (2) sponsor fiber art exhibitions, (3) provide facilities for the promotion and appreciation of the fiber arts, (4) sponsor special events open to the public focused on the fiber arts, (5) promote innovation and excellence in the fiber arts, (6) preserve fiber art skills and traditions, (7) educate the public about fiber arts, and (8) be a regional fiber arts resource.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education includes (1) monthly program meetings on a wide variety of textile topics from Explorations in Double Weave, The Fibershed Movement: A Local Lens on Sustainable Textiles and Historic Linens: A Weaver's Research Journey, and (2) classes in all textile techniques and for all abilities, including Apron Sewing Workshop, Adventures in Paper Weaving, Sewing with Handmade Fabrics, Batiks Made with Beeswax, Ice Dyeing, Fabric Jewelry Art, Introduction to Basket Weaving, Paper and Fabric Marbling, Love Your Blending Board, Spinning Cotton with a Charka, Beginning Quilting, Felt a Bowl on a Ball, Felt Fabulous Flowers, Fabulous Felt and Nuno-Felt Hats, Beginners Quilt Binding, Carve It, Print It, Repeat It
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $119K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.