The Mountain Artists Guild Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 866091344
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Prescott, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9284452510
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $282,647
- Expenses
- $247,374
- Assets
- $524,933
- Liabilities
- $201,828
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NIKI SIMONSON (President)
- ANITA HATCH-MILLER (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- NIKI SIMONSON (President)
- ANITA HATCH-MILLER (Vice President)
- JOAN EBERHART (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mountain artist guild is a 501(c)3 member based non-profit organization in prescott Arizona, dedicated to fostering education and appreciation of the visual arts within our community. We provide a welcoming environment, educational resources, and a vehicle to promote fellowship of artists and artisans through membership, art center activities, and galleries in support of our mission. We are committed to the respectful exchange of ideas and mutual support among artists of all abilities and cultural backgrounds. We incorporated with the state of Arizona in all abilities and cultural backgrounds. We incorporated with the state of Arizona in 1963 and recently updated our bylaws to better reflect our mission of art education, advocacy, and fellowship in support of the visual arts. The mountain artists guild offers art classes, workshops, and a fine art gallery to assists artists in their professional development. Outreach programs and services include youth after-school art and summer a
What it reported doing in 2025
Fine art gallery operated to provide for the professional development of artist memebers, and to serve our mission of visual arts advocacy and fellowship among artists
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 12.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $225K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.