Touchet Valley Arts Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911754968
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dayton, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093821380
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,529
- Expenses
- $209,550
- Assets
- $881,109
- Liabilities
- $13,957
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY LENOX (PRESIDENT)
- DEENA SCOTT formerly BELL-POTTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY LENOX (PRESIDENT)
- DEENA SCOTT formerly BELL-POTTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER LINGO (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Touchet Valley Arts Council promotes fine arts in the Touchet Valley and surrounding area including, but not limited to, motion pictures, live theater, music, art, and oral interpretation. We present current and classic movies, live community drama, comedy, and musical theater, youth theater, and civic events.
What it reported doing in 2025
EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS: The organization provides use of the theater for community forums and educational events, and occasional private events, at a nominal usage fee. The fee is sometimes waived for other community organizations. This year again included a drug-awareness forum for parents. The organization also arranges for local artists to display their paintings and sculptures in the theater lobby on a continuing rotation. This Program Service includes live performances not produced by our Productions Group, including a comedy play, workshops, and variety of concerts presented through the year, with a range of visiting performing artists from western music to jazz to classic string quartet. Food-and-a-movie events offer Culinary Arts, serving food items keyed to the international or special theme of the movie. This fiscal year we continue the Summer Cultural Enrichment Program for youth, almost all with free admission, supported by grants, to include a series of 6 children's movies, the Missoula Children's Theatre, and Alex Zerbe, a dynamic entertainer to encourage reading. Missoula Children's Theatre is a week-long youth theater workshop and performances involving up to 60 children ages 5 to 18, at no cost to participants.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 7.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.2; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.