The Time in Childrens Arts Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263603729
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9173189499
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,329
- Expenses
- $15,063
- Assets
- $3,999
- Liabilities
- $24,766
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- MIA MEYER (TRUSTEE)
- CYNDIE BELLEN-BERTHEZENE (SECRETARYEXEC DIRECTOR)
- ELLIOT BELLEN (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Time in is dedicated to overcoming the academic, social and emotional iniquities of at-risk children through an arts inspired curriculum.
What it reported doing in 2024
This year, time in continued organizing its archives including 50k+ photographs and videos reflecting time ins 17 years of radical, arts-based interventions in some of nycs most challenged elementary schools. The organization of the archives was fundamental to the work on time ins documentary. Time in produced the raw footage hours of interviews with artists, singers and children/adolescents who had been involved in time in for over 10 years. The goal of this documentary, the art of change, which reflects on nearly two decades of time ins work in some of New York citys most vulnerable communities of color and our ability to allow the voices of children to be heard, thanks to our intensive work at a grassroots level, is to bring the importance of the arts in education to the forefront of the publics mind and be an instrument of change for public education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $70.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -61.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.19; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.