The Arts Guild of Sonoma
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942391571
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7079963115
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,730
- Expenses
- $61,294
- Assets
- $94,342
- Liabilities
- $18,713
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA O'BRIEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA O'BRIEN (PRESIDENT)
- BJ BECK (VICE-PRESIDE)
- GAIL DUFFLEY (SECRETARY)
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 build member's artistic reputations that will promote sales, increase public exposure, to develop appreciation of the arts in the community, and support local students in their art endeavors.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide local artists an opportunity to become a member of the sonoma arts guild based on artistic ability so that tey can build their artistic reputation and present their work to the public for sale in a retail gallery. Operation of the arts guild of sonoma retail gallery that is open to the public for the purpose of displaying for sale artwork of the member artists and for the benefits, enjoyment and entrichment of the local sommunity. Sponsor a high school art show, the nonfrofit plein aire foundatin provides us a grant and we also receive donations of mnaterials. The show is for the purpose of encouraging young artists and displaying their artwork to th public inour retail art gallery for the benefit, enjoyment and enrichment of the local community. To organize and present a juried art show for the benefit, enjoyment of the public for four weeks in our retail gallery and to offer for sale the displayed works.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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
STRONG - 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K 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: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.