Village Fine Arts Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383037710
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Milford, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2487973060
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $238,844
- Expenses
- $222,193
- Assets
- $58,377
- Liabilities
- $20,331
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keri Cleasby (Executive Director)
- Abigail Powers (President)
- Rachel McCollum (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Keri Cleasby (Executive Director): $43,340 total reported compensation
- Bryce Cleasby (Treasurer): $4,040 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote the arts by providing fellowship, education, and opportunities to artists and the community at large.
What it reported doing in 2025
Suzanne Haskew Art Center SHAC - Provides a space for artists and the community at-large to create, display, and promote art. Includes a focus on art for individuals with special needs, youth, and senior citizens. The art center is open for use 5 days a week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 48
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $180K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.