The Articulate Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474490110
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2675212787
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Television

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,239
Expenses
$184,009
Assets
$87,613

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • PAUL G MAGUIRE (Chairman)
  • PAULA BUTLER (Director)
  • JOSEPH CONYERS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through our emmy award-winning television program, articulate with jim cotter, and its associated digital media and educational assets, the articulate foundation connects broadcast, digital and classroom audiences to the human stories behind art.

What it reported doing in 2024

Articulate with jim cotter is an emmy award winning nationally distributed public television program. Over ten seasons the program has informed and uplifted audiences with stories of how creative thinking shapes our world. Through interviews, live performances and distinctive storytelling articulate offers a one of a kind window into the ideas and experiences of diverse artists from authors and architects to musicians and dancers.artists are valued for their ideas, modes opf thinking and proiductivity, and where the comtributions of creative minds are core to thinking in the classroom, in the boardroom, in government and beyond.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -453.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.