Sticky Culture
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934802680
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032321600
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,000
- Expenses
- $75,421
- Assets
- $1,454
- Liabilities
- $209,815
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Haddock (President)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Haddock (President)
- Justin Seibert (Secretary)
- Brandon Stump (Treasurer)
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
To craft interactive public art and engaging educational experiences that captivate, educate, and inspire. Through vibrant public installations and enriching museum exhibits, we aim to spark wonder and initiate meaningful dialogues with the diverse communities we touch.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sticky Culture served as Experience Design and Integration Partner for the PRAx Gallery, a component of the Climate of Change exhibition at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), commissioned by Oregon State University's Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). The PRAx Gallery is designed to immerse visitors in environments that demonstrate how artistic imagination, empathy, and experimentation contribute to understanding and responding to the climate crisis. The gallery comprises five interconnected zones - Visual Art, Sound, Performance, Literature, and Meet the Artist - each presenting curated works within a unified spatial and sensory framework. In 2025, Sticky Culture completed Phase 1 of the project: initiating the engagement, conducting joint planning workshops with PRAx and OMSI, and developing the conceptual and environmental design framework for the full gallery. Fabrication and installation are scheduled for completion in 2026. The PRAx Gallery will serve the hundreds of thousands of visitors who visit OMSI annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 144.3; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -59.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 132.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -87.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd 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 · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.