The Austin School for the Performing & Visual Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710994178
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5125227782
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,871
- Expenses
- $202,045
- Assets
- $371,567
- Liabilities
- $3,494
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carol de Cardenas (Executive Director)
- Juanita Budd (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carol de Cardenas (Executive Director): $91,743 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Austin School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a place for students who want to pursue artistic excellence while celebrating creativity community and service.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Austin School for Performing and Visual Arts is a public charity founded in 2006 and has served over 2,700 sutdents in the greater Austin community. We offer a variety of performing and visual arts classes as part of Community Outreach Program to promote student success and to support their well being. By collaborating with other organizations such as public schools church groups veterans military first responders and others our reach is broad and we are able to serve a diverse group of students who are exploring the arts or honing their artisitc talents. Our programs include ance theatre music songwriting visual arts and cinematic arts. Other unique programs include world music drumming and body percussion and our performance jump rope team all of which promote good health showmanship and teamwork. The majority of the students we serve participate on scholarship. costs associated with these programs are covered or shaerd with ASPVA collaborators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -533.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.