Up Your Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822910014
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Southport, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3017416698
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,403
- Expenses
- $72,542
- Assets
- $45,792
- Liabilities
- $504
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Keiffer (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- John Keiffer (President and Director)
- Bob Gentile (Board of Directors Chair)
- Rick Kranz (Secretary and Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support creative and performing arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
UYA co-sponsored "Raise Up Your Arts" with the City of Southport (and 17 individual sponsors who donated $250 each) and was held from December 2024-November 2025. This project selected 24 Brunswick County artists (out of a submission pool of more than 70) whose work was displayed on banners hanging from utility poles for six months, May 2025-November 2025, in downtown Southport. An estimated 40,000 people had ongoing visual access.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.8%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.8% of revenue deployed · 30.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 11 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.