West Windsor Arts Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030494648
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6097161931
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $566,508
- Expenses
- $588,180
- Assets
- $634,762
- Liabilities
- $127,074
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mikel Cirkus (President)
- Padmaja Ganapathy (Vice President)
- Aylin Green (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Aylin Green (Executive Director): $81,985 total reported compensation
- Kaveri Kalawar (Operations Director): $53,186 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
What it reported doing in 2024
West Windsor Arts Council (WWA) draws audiences of up to 250 from the greater Mercer county area per event such as cultural festivals, Art & Healing events, and live performances. Free receptions celebrate exhibitions featuring art by local and regional artists focusing on relevant, thematic topics. West Windsor Arts has over 735 members, 188 adults and 175 youth volunteers, over 35 artist instructors, and over 500 exhibiting artists and performers. Music and dance performances focus on diverse perspectives. Free community events include the summer family arts and music programs. Partnerships with groups such as Eden Autism, Art Against Racism, Capitol Country Childrens Collaborative and more extend reach to underserved communities.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $410K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.