Visual Resources Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431293169
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2672536522
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,783
- Expenses
- $28,497
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEANNINE KEEFER (President)
People named in this filing
- JEANNINE KEEFER (President)
- BRIAN SHELBURNE (VP CONF. ARRANG)
- CHRISTOPHER SAWULA (VP CONF PROG)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Visual Resources Association (VRA) is a multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. VRA is committed to providing leadership in the visual resources field, developing and advocating standards, offering educational tools, and opportunities for the benefit of the community at large. The VRA implements these goals through publication programs and educational activities. It offers a forum for issues of vital concern to the field, including preservation of and access to digital and analog images of visual culture; cataloguing and classification standards and practices; integration of technology-based instruction and research; intellectual property policy; and topics of interest to the field. Through Collaboration, partnership, and outreach with broader communities, the VRA actively supports documenting and understanding humanity's shared experience.
What it reported doing in 2021
Confrence costs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -66.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2021
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.