Teralta Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862003207
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6193355237
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,379
- Expenses
- $148,901
- Assets
- $75,108
- Liabilities
- $622
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAGGIE SHEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TINA SNOOK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MAGGIE SHEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TINA SNOOK (PRESIDENT)
- YA-YUNG CHENG (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
Provide access to arts through arts education, courses, and studio time.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teralta provides a number of opportunities for the community to experience ceramics regardless of skill level. Open clay studio is open for everyone to play on the clay table free of charge. They offer ceramics classes for children and adults. Studio time can be booked for people who are proficient at all aspects of ceramics and require zero supervision. Teralta also offers monthly workshops that are open to all skill levels. Scholarships are provided for low income families and children who can most benefit from creating art. Pro-social and pro-wellness ceramic classes are provided to children in restorative justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
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: 9.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.