West Kortright Centreinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510153026
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- East Meredith, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6072785454
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,908
- Expenses
- $318,009
- Assets
- $281,594
- Liabilities
- $19,658
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elisabeth Searles-retired 924 (President)
- Mark Vamos (Vice President)
- Rachel Watson (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Saira McLaren (Executive Dir.): $60,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The West Kortright Centre offers a diverse blend of high quality performances, learning opportunities and visual arts exhibits, while preserving its historic landmark church building and bringing together an evolving rural community.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 we presented 7 main stage events, a three-day film festival, a free large-scale outdoor puppet theater for families and kids, and 2 larger community events, Kidstock! and the Emerging Voices Pride Fest, 10 workshops focused on rural arts and crafts, 7 theater and film workshops for children and youth, 5 gallery exhibitions and receptions, artist talks, and a free after-school program at Delaware Academy, Delhi. We sponsored two concerts in Veterans Park, Stamford. The performers were the Sweet Adelines and Terry Branigan.Our volunteers put in a total of 462 hours to help make the season a success. In 2024, attendance increased by 25% compared to the previous year. Our children and youth programs had an overall attendance of 1040 people. 200 of those were from the Stamford and Worcester area. Our family festival KIDSTOCK! brought in a crowd of over 300. Our youth theater program grew to 91 participants.Overall in 2024 we served 2,720 residents and visitors; and hosted 135 artists and program contributors of diverse interests, backgrounds, and age groups. Three of our concerts were sold-out shows. Our audience consists of community members of all ages and income levels.We presented a variety of performers; from a young Colombian band expanding Afro Caribbean music, a Puerto Rican LGBTQ+ band for a Pride celebration, emerging country singer Kassi Valazza, the legendary jazz band Sun Ra Arkestra, and local musician the Bones of JR Jones. We organized our first film festival which included submissions from Oneonta to Iran. Our Shakespeare in the Valley, in its 38th season, was bigger and better this year. We expanded our youth workshops with a teen filmmaking workshop.
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 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $262K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.