Wahi Studio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852853560
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Newfane, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7163451339
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,461
- Expenses
- $55,940
- Assets
- $16,542
- Liabilities
- $3,860
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASSANDRA CALHOUN-SARGEANT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA TOMAINO (EXECUTIVE DI)
- CASSANDRA CALHOUN-SARGEANT (PRESIDENT)
- KIMBERLY GRAHAM (TREASURER)
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 make art accessible for youths, et al
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 wahi studio inc. Moved out of the brick-and-mortar studio at 240 Michigan street in lockport and became 100% mobile in service of the western New York area. The after school art club programs continued for royhart and newfane school districts at sites within walking distance of the schools to eliminate access barriers for students. These programs and the mural summer camp were funded by art service's inc. Creative impact grant and community member donations. Royalton-hartland's club is at the hub at 27 state street, middleport. Newfane's club site is at the town of newfane recreation hall at 2737 main street, newfane. Wahi continued after school programming in lockport with lockport spokes funded by grigg lewis foundation, inc. Wahi continued its partnerships with the kenan center in lockport instructing kenan acres art class offerings. Wahi studio also had small group and private art lesson instruction throughout the year. Wahi studio did events and activities for hilbert college, suny niagara, epic (niagara county family opportunity center), say yes buffalo in niagara falls, liberty partnership program and others. The first ever mural summer club took place in july and a group of 11 teenagers installed a mural at the newfane methodist church 2699 main street, newfane. On july 19th, 2025 wahi hosted the lockport chalk walk. This annual event is free and family friendly to attend. In 2025 this event included a guest artist from Florida as a mentor and a 3 day chalk art education course prior to the event. We had 37 artists of all ages and abilities take part and saw about 1,400 visitors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.