The Front
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472321411
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2158151033
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,010
- Expenses
- $41,434
- Assets
- $36,599
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ruth Owens (President)
People named in this filing
- Ulrika Matthiessen (Treasurer)
- Elliott Stokes (Secretary)
- Diane Appaix-Castro (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Front Gallery is a not-for-profit artist run exhibit space that serves the public by making art accessible. The venue at 4100 St. Claude Avenue is a frequent host to a range of free events that are open to the public, such as film screenings, community barbecues, and meetings between members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our monthly openings as well as 100 of our programming and events are free to the public and reached an estimate of 3,000 - 4,000 members of our community. We are proud to provide a platform for artists to show their work, as well as an accessible space for our community to experience contemporary artwork.
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 93% 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.