Tucson Celtic Festival & Highland Games
Legal name: Tucson Celtics Festival Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860653551
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5208224779
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,397
- Expenses
- $119,986
- Assets
- $97,686
- Liabilities
- $2,804
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jay Dee Hargrove II (President)
- Sean Stoner (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jay Dee Hargrove II (President)
- Sean Stoner (Vice President)
- Allison Stoner (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and celebrate Celtic culture and heritage in the Tucson community through an annual festival featuring music, dance, athletics, and educational activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Tucson Celtic Festival Association hosts the annual Tucson Celtic Festival & Scottish Highland Games to foster national and international sports competition and to support athletes for competition in traditional Scottish Athletic Contests worldwide. This year the Tucson Celtic Festival hosted a Highland Dance Competition in addition to the Southwest Masters Championship Highland Games. The TCFA also uses this public forum to preserve Celtic customs and cultures by providing educational programs during the festival.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.