Westcott Area Cultural Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800268705
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157036848
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,358
- Expenses
- $53,681
- Assets
- $22,801
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL HARVEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL HARVEY (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON SHERMAN (TREASURER)
- CAROL THORYL-OLEARY (SECRETARY)
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 westcott street cultural fair is an annual, one-day celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of the westcott neighborhood through its culture: visual and performing arts, food, service organizations and activities geared to families and syracuse and lemoyne students returning to the neighborhood. The fair attracts more than 8,000 people annually to the westcott business district in mid-september for a day filled with great sounds, sights, tastes and more.
What it reported doing in 2025
The westcott street cultural fair is an annual, one-day celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of the westcott neighborhood through its culture, visual and performing arts, food, service organizations, and activities geared to families and university students returning to the neighborhood. The fair attracts more than 8,000 people annually to the westcott business district in mid-september for a day filled with great sounds, sights, tastes and more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 28; 28th 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: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.