The Lehman College Art Gallery Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133391212
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bronx, NY, USA
Phone
7189607732
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Art Museums

Reported finances

Revenue
$673,171
Expenses
$666,487
Assets
$2,084,719
Liabilities
$31,027

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR FERNANDO DELGADO (PRESIDENT)
  • RENE ROTOLO (VICE PRESIDENT ADMIN & FIN)
  • BARTHOLOMEW BLAND (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR FERNANDO DELGADO (PRESIDENT): $541,965 total reported compensation
  • RENE ROTOLO (VICE PRESIDENT ADMIN & FIN): $299,064 total reported compensation
  • SUSAN EBERSOLE (BOARD MEMBER): $243,583 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Lehman college art gallery is dedicated to serving the interests of the bronx community and the greater New York area by providing a dynamic center for the visual arts as well as an important cultural resource for its diverse audience. The gallery presents works by leading figures in contemporary art, promising emerging artists, and significant theme shows. Education is an integral component of exhibition programming and provides the basis of the gallery's outreach-from young students to senior citizens. To further these goals the gallery pursues new technologies as a means of reaching audiences internationally as well as locally.

What it reported doing in 2024

Lehman college art gallery education programs: lehman college art gallery has been a cultural and educational resource for the bronx community since 1985. Programs are offered to nyc doe school groups between kindergarten and twelfth grade, teachers, college classes, and the adult gallery audience. They include in-school artist residencies, mural projects, workshops with tour, artist's talks, long-term and short-term workshops that are offered in the schools as well as the gallery, professional development for teachers, and internship programs, and bi-lingual family art workshops. Programs encourage students to develop critical thinking and communication skills while expanding their understanding of art in the gallery. In the studio, students learn to collaborate on installation projects, develop basic arts skills, and make connections between art and their other classes. Our unique relationship with lehman college allows students the opportunity to visualize college life and imagine a possible career in the arts beyond school. The internship program completes the circle by teaching college students to become educators in the arts.exhibition program: the gallery has been bringing important contemporary art to our bronxaudience since 1984. It presents 46 contemporary art exhibitions each year that includes major figures in the art world as well as important emerging artists. Gallery exhibition admission, gallery talks, receptions, and exhibition materials are offered free of charge.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.13; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $590K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $542K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.