The New Deal Creative Arts Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 823093029
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location: Hyde Park, NY, USA
Rating: 62
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue: $58,351
Expenses: $51,532
Assets: $68,802
Liabilities: $15,000

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Ron M Lane (President)
Ann Woolsey (Vice President)

People named in this filing

Ron M Lane (President)
Ann Woolsey (Vice President)
Crystal Herriman (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Theater arts and education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide opportunities to learn create discover and explore hearts for youth in the community. Workshops and summer camps

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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 38
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 48
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
Program expense ratio: 41.4%; rating input score 41

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -43.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 41.4% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.