Wellesley Society of Artists Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810864697
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wellesley, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5084233606
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,744
- Expenses
- $14,410
- Assets
- $17,969
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NANCY TREVES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- YVONNE UNGER (TREASURER)
- SAMANTHA EIO (CLERK)
- DONNA MARIA TICCHI (DIRECTOR)
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
The wsa supports and encourages local artists, while promoting the fine arts in the community through member exhibitions, artist demonstrations andeducational programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
The wsa gives members opportunities to exhibit their work, provides a supportive environment that will stimulate personal creativity, and encourages the sharing of ideas, knowledge and skills. Wsa gives exhibiting members an opportunity to exhibit their work in community venues that attract an appreciative andreceptive population, including the wellesley free library and the wellesley webster bank. During the covid -19 pandemic, the wsa shows have been online. Exhibiting members may submit work to each of ourexhibitions. Professional artists judge our shows, and the wsa awards cash prizes to the winning artists. We prominently post winning art on our website's award winner gallery. The wsa also creates a dedicatedwebsite page for each exhibiting member accessed through our gallery.throughout the year, we provide programs, critiques and demonstrations in various media by professional artists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84%; 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: -22.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.