The Artistic Fuel Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843554995
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Leesburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7037376761
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,910
- Expenses
- $264,010
- Assets
- $17,139
- Liabilities
- $485,694
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAELEY BOYLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EILEEN A SWENSON (EXEC. DIRECT)
- JOHN L O'DONNELL (CHAIRPERSON)
- SEAN P O'DONNELL (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The artistic fuel foundation strives to help people ignite or rediscover the fire of creativity and imagination that exists within them. The organization share tools and resources to sustain a healthy creative life. Its vision is to realize the full potential of creatives in developing a more inclusive community in the arts and at home. It is committed to the design of arts-based educational programming that transforms the experience of learning and participation in research and advocacy to expand understanding of the role of arts and creativity in human experience.
What it reported doing in 2022
The organization participated and sponsored various career and arts fair programs in 2021. The events offered various opportunities for the community development and creative success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,798%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 28.34; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -88.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 188.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 3.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K 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 2021 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.