Wildfire Community Arts Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412044202
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Berthoud, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9705325497
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,284
- Expenses
- $107,991
- Assets
- $126,275
- Liabilities
- $474
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH KEARNEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH KEARNEY (PRESIDENT)
- ERIC WOLLAN (TREASURER)
- HANNAH ZIMMERLING (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Building community through the arts
What it reported doing in 2025
FORM 990-EZ, PART III, LINE 28, PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Wildfire is proud to continue its partnership with the Town of Berthoud, providing arts and cultural programming to the local community. Town funding provides the essential operating income needed to employ our part-time Programs Director and part-time Administrative Director. Through diverse, high-quality, and affordable programming, Wildfire offered 31 classes and workshops this period, reaching a total of 5,547 students and event participants. We continue to serve everyone from children to seniors, providing expert instruction in both the performing and visual arts. This includes our longstanding adult ballet and tap classes, which have welcomed students for over a decade. We have also expanded our dance offerings to include country line dancing, preschool dance, and hula - proudly taught by a native-born Polynesian instructor. Our Programs Director continues to lead two weekly homeschool art classes, serving 18 local students ranging in age from 5 to 14. Additionally, we maintain three weekly after-school art clubs and have added a second section for 8-10-year-olds for the winter semester. Other visual arts courses, such as sewing, needle felting, and watercolor, remain popular across all age groups. Our music department recently introduced toddler and preschool music and movement classes, alongside the continued success of our multi-generational ukulele and hand drumming courses. Finally, we are pleased to announce that two new students are now attending art classes via scholarships, and we remain grateful for the ability to offer free programming art enthusiasts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.