Spark Arts Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920482185
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
9178177142
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,129
Expenses
$115,185
Assets
$25,646
Liabilities
$4,263

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • SEBASTIAN ALAPPAT (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • JONATHAN MENDEZ (DIRECTOR)
  • ANGELA PHOENIX ROJAS (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

Spark arts inc. Is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing art enrichment programs to underfunded communities for both the young and old. Our innovative approach combines art and mindfulness to nurture creativity, mindfulness, and emotional well-being through art across all ages. Through this business plan, we aim to outline our strategies for sourcing funding through grants and contributions, as well as our commitment to providing access to children and adults who can gain from the amazing therapeutic power of art who wouldn't otherwise have these resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Spark arts inc. Has successful established itself as one of the highly regarded after school programs. We have created a wonderful year long program that provides our signatures enrichment program for children combining art and mindfulness. We have earned a stellar reputation through our programs unique curriculum, smaller groups and greater individualized attention. Recently we have also expanded our non profit to offer classes that allow adults to tap into the cathartic power of art through our breath & paint workshops held weekly at our studio.

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

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: 22
  • Growth: 100

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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 164.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 105.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd 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 · $115K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.