Springfield Council for the Arts and Humanities

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841246867
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Springfield, CO, USA
Phone
7195291400
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,096
Expenses
$74,557
Assets
$208,164
Liabilities
$1,382

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Merna McGinnis (President)
  • Randi Batterton (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer Leathers (Secretary)
  • Penni Morris (Treasurer)
  • Merna McGinnis (President)

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

We aim to provide a variety of venues to present the arts and humanities to members of our community, to enrich and to grow their understanding and involvement in the many facets of the arts. We also aim to provide humanitarian aid and support to our local youth and adults of all ages in our community through programs of Power Pak 4 Kids and Springfield Community for Families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Springfield Community for Families: This program sponsors family-friendly events and activities in our community. We sponsor seasonal events such as a Pumpkin Shine before halloween, which gives kids and parents a chance to celebrate the holiday in a safe manner by having a costume parade, costume contests, pumpkin decorating contests with prizes to the winners. Pizza and drinks are also offered to participants at no charge to them. We also offer a free movie and a visit from santa at Christmas, along with a goody bag of fruit and candy handed out to the children. We are trying to get things going again post-Covid and hope to come up with new, fun events for families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 60

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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $115K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.