Watchung Arts Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222189019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Watchung, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9087530190
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,035
- Expenses
- $59,997
- Assets
- $61,578
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOAN PLASNER (President)
People named in this filing
- JOAN PLASNER (President)
- JACK AYLWARD (Trustee)
- PAMELA SINGH (Trustee)
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
Provide educational and cultural benefits to watchung and the surrounding community
What it reported doing in 2024
Performing, visual & educational arts programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.6%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 47; 47th 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: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.6% of revenue deployed · 37.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 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 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.