Tea Arts and Culture Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863679997
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3478403016
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,039
- Expenses
- $105,499
- Assets
- $35,521
- Liabilities
- $2,681
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- EDUARD BOGUSLAVSKY (DIRECTOR)
- ERIKA HOULE (DIRECTOR)
- ANNE PY (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
Our mission is to cultivate connections to ourselves, nature, and one another through sharing the art of tea.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our nature tea events bring people from all walks of life together to savor each season outdoors in nyc public green spaces. We celebrate the diverse cultures around us and share our collective appreciation of nature and community through tea, arts, and music. For our golden tea events, we create multi-sensory and social tea experiences for seniors to connect with each other through the art of tea. We provide opportunities for conversations and storytelling, as well as enriching learning experiences together. For our community engagement tea, through our collaboration with nyc parks greenthumb, we bring accessible quality creative arts and tea programming to our partner community gardens throughout nyc. Community members get to slow down and have a meaningful time. From poetry to paper-making to story-telling, we aim to deepen a sense of community and humanity, inspire creativity and mindfulness, and foster cross-cultural understanding and connections.
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 - 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: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.