The Bay Area Glass Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770444349
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4089932244
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,782,475
- Expenses
- $1,570,943
- Assets
- $1,911,235
- Liabilities
- $81,192
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- LUCIE RAMOS (AT LARGE)
- STEVEN ALDRICH (Chairman)
- RAGHAV IYENGAR (AT LARGE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2024
BAGI's focus is to provide facilities to local artist to develop their craft and make glass art accessible to the public. The BAGI facility consists of the hot shop with two work stations, a work area for glass fusing, and work area for torch working, cold working equipment, the gallery, the gift shop, and storage areas for the artists and students. The facility is available 7 days a week from 8am to 10pm for artists to work. Because most emerging artists hold other jobs to support themselves, it is critical that the facility is open evenings and weekends. BAGI facilities provide classes to beginning artists and the general public in glass, blowing, fusing, and torch working. BAGI hires as employees the BAGI artists to teach and "TA" these classes. BAGI additionally provides practice time at reduced rates to our students to assist our students to develop their skills. BAGI's annual public access programs include the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch in Palo Alto, Santana Row Pumpkin Patch, Visiting Artist Series, and Holiday Glass and Ornament Sale. Solid planning, budgeting and marketing along with strong artist support allowed BAGI to create well-attended, publicly accessible events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.