The Studio Potter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237213616
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Derry, NH, USA
- Phone
- 4135855998
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,670
- Expenses
- $136,185
- Assets
- $192,097
- Liabilities
- $255
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- LEIGH TAYLOR MICKELSON (BOARD PRESID)
- HAYNE BAYLESS (CO-VICE PRES)
- JOANN SCHNABEL (CO-VICE PRES)
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
Centered in studio practice, the studio potter fosters education and discussion within the ceramics community by publishing a professional journal that focuses on critial issues of aesthetics, technology, history and personal development.
What it reported doing in 2025
The studio potter publishes two issues of its professional journal for ceramists, educators, historians and collectors. The issues are richly illustrated and commercial-free. They are distributed to 2000 subscribers and sold as individual issues to students and colleagues at a national conference for ceramic art educators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K 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: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.