Thornton Arts Sciences and Humanities Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841188069
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Thornton, CO, USA
Phone
3035387236
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$80,254
Expenses
$99,059
Assets
$128,919
Liabilities
$9,061

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TANSY HAYWARD (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • GABRIEL CERVANTES (DIRECTOR, 1)
  • CHRISTYLE RUSSELL (CHAIRPERSON, 1)
  • JESSICA MYERS (DIRECTOR, 1)

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

The corporation is organized within the parks and recreation department of the city of thornton, Colorado, and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, cultural, and scientific purposes, and shall have as its primary purpose to provide for the production, presentation, exhibition, advancement, and preservation of art, music, theatre, dance, zoology, botany or natural history for the city of thornton, Colorado.

What it reported doing in 2025

Various programs, benefiting the citizens of thornton, Colorado by promoting the production, presentation, and exhibition of the arts and sciences.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -23.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.