The Arts of Imagination Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871895793
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6462797044
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,952
- Expenses
- $12,238
- Assets
- $497,643
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brady Schwind (President)
- Caroline de Fauw (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brady Schwind (President)
- Wendy Noel Walker (Secretary)
- Merrily Boardman (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
The Arts of Imagination Foundation connects people of all ages and backgrounds to the enduring power of imagination through art and storytelling.The Arts of Imagination Foundation's vision is that people everywhere will discover the power of imagination in their lives.The Arts of Imagination Foundation achieves its mission through the study, acquisition, and exhibition of artwork and historic materials related to universal stories, through multi-generational learning events, and through scholarships and commissions that support the art of storytelling.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Arts of Imagination Foundation connects people of all ages and backgrounds to the enduring power of imagination through art and storytelling.The Arts of Imagination Foundation's vision is that people everywhere will discover the power of imagination in their lives.The Arts of Imagination Foundation achieves its mission through the study, acquisition, and exhibition of artwork and historic materials related to universal stories, through multi-generational learning events, and through scholarships and commissions that support the art of storytelling.In 2025, The Arts of Imagination Foundation (AOIF) expanded its outreach and educational programming by bringing historic, story-inspired artwork and structured arts education initiatives directly to classrooms, museums, community centers and rehabilitation facilities throughout the United States. Through these efforts, AOIF provided thousands of students and individuals from underserved communities with free access to art and arts education, supporting opportunities for creative engagement, cultural enrichment, and personal development.
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
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.7%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.9%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 40.66; rating input score 98; 98th 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: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.7% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.