Toonseum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261950683
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $15,137
- Assets
- $73,705
- Liabilities
- $2,100
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marcel Walker (President)
People named in this filing
- Marcel Walker (President)
- Cheryl Weber (Secretary)
- Terry Lee (Development)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ToonSeum operates throughout Pittsburgh's many communities with an expanded mission: championing comics as a force for social good through education while cultivating more inclusive audiences. We seek to build a more diverse audience for the comic and cartoon arts through intentionally inclusive programming outreach fundraising and partnerships. Pop-up exhibits lectures workshops classes and comic-book drop offs are among the events planned as we explore new ways of building public engagement with the comic and cartoon arts.
What it reported doing in 2020
May 2021 Kids Comic Con The ToonSeum with Sarah Heinz House help a one day Kids Comic Con. It was a free family event. It had a live-draw cosplay session. Free comic book packets. SHH had teen volunteers providing stickers to participants at each activity station. Kids earned these stickers for their program booklet. There was a station about creating a superhero. There was also a making "magic" wands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.87; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 66.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2018 to 2020
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.