Visual Resources Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260697925
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2394107982
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,605
- Expenses
- $133,674
- Assets
- $449,603
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Xiaoli Ma (President)
- Margaret McKee (President Elect)
People named in this filing
- Xiaoli Ma (President)
- Margaret McKee (President Elect)
- Anna Zook (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See attached.
What it reported doing in 2024
Regional Workshops/Conferences-Training for visual resource professionalsin developing, preserving, and advocating for the scholarlylife cycle of cultural heritage resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 59.5%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.36; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 59.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.