Wingspan Arts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134189808
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464934855
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,955
- Expenses
- $53,829
- Assets
- $12,269
- Liabilities
- $6,279
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL ASHLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- GARY BERNSTEIN (BOARD CHAIR)
- CHERYL VOLLWEILER (TREASURER)
- GEORGETTE JASEN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To reach out and expose diverse groups, especially young audiences, to all forms of performing, visual, media, and literary arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
The wingspan arts summer conservatory provides free, pre-professional theatrical training opportunities to 70 students in 6th through 12th grade each year. By offering tuition-free arts training, the program most fully exemplifies our mission by concentrating on the creative goals and skills of our students, while also emphasizing the importance of commitment and professionalism in the arts. Through a variety of classes led by industry professionals, as well as hands-on rehearsal experience, conservatory students learn the skills required to become accomplished theatre artists and leaders in their field. Wingspan conservatory emphasizes the power of community by bringing young artists together in an inclusive, creative environment. In 20 years, the program has served more than 1,200 students and produced more than 65 productions. Wingspan arts offers the only tuition-free, pre-professional theatre training program in New York city that culminates in full-scale productions.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -67.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.