West End Arts District
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811374719
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Alameda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108641244
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,098
- Expenses
- $186,408
- Assets
- $51,052
- Liabilities
- $2,654
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rachel Campos de Ivanov (President)
People named in this filing
- Tara Pilbrow (Executive Dir.)
- Yakaira Nuez (Director)
- Rachel Campos de Ivanov (President)
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
We provide a platform for artists to create vibrant art experiences on the West End of Alameda that bring together local and regional audiences around the visual and performing arts. Our events and programs offer new perspectives, spark conversation, and engage with the landscape we live in.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, West End Arts District expanded its climate-focused arts programming through two major initiatives designed to educate and inspire environmental stewardship. In Plain Site, an outdoor photography festival at Alameda Point, attracted over 3,000 visitors and showcased climate-focused visual storytelling. The program extended beyond the exhibition to include community events, speaker panels, workshops, and school engagement activities serving high school, middle school, and elementary students. In addition, WEAD produced DeepDive, an immersive performance event combining projection, music, and installation art to celebrate the ocean's beauty and raise awareness about marine conservation. Together, these programs engaged diverse audiences and encouraged community dialogue and action around climate issues
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.