The Creative Outpost

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853714092
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Little Falls, NY, USA
Phone
3155085310
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employment Procurement Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,512
Expenses
$55,630
Assets
$147,582
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Kevin McClary (Secretary)
  • Jason Montgomery (Director)
  • Deborah A Kaufman (Vice Chair/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

Workforce development in new media, publishing, broadcasting, podcasting, videography, media internships and economic development as it pertains to fostering growth in content media jobs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Foundation and corporate grants -advance training for 4 students in print/online publishing for the Mohawk Valley Express and the Daily Post. The students learned writing, editing and proofing skills, videography reels, live interviews, ad creation for sports games, voice overs with advanced camera skills. One student started his own podcast and graduated from college with a degree in Marketing, while others continue to support print and online publications as paid interns throughout their high school and college years.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 40.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 52.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.