Wiscasset Creative Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842419738
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Wiscasset, ME, USA
Phone
8603383576
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,030
Expenses
$48,808
Assets
$53,402
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alissa Eason (President)

People named in this filing

  • Alissa Eason (President)
  • Tracey Whitney (Secretary)
  • Daniel Watts (Treasurer)

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

Wiscasset Creative Alliance advances and connects our cultural, historical, and creative communities. This is achieved by promoting six community events throughout the year. Wiscasset Creative Alliance is a driving force helping the town of Wiscasset to be a dynamic and thriving community in which to live, work, and play - for everyone.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Wiscasset Creative Alliance is organized to bring together several small community arts and culture volunteer groups under one organizational umbrella for the purposes of maximizing use of community and management resources, sharing opportunities and expertise, and supporting high quality programming. Those groups include Wiscasset Art Walk, Wiscasset's Museum in the Streets, Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest, Wiscasset Homes on Tour, and Wiscasset Wormfest. The three largest programs and accomplishments include: Wiscasset Wormfest - a one day festival to promote the worming industry. Festival was attended by over 1000 people. Proceeds provide scholarships to local high school students - total expenses - $25,869. Wiscasset Art Walk - 3 monthly one-day events to promote arts and crafts of local merchants. Music and food were also provided. Attendance at each event numbered in the 100's of local residents. total expenses - $4,716. Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest - a two day holiday market promoting products from local merchants. Daily attendance numbered in the 100's. Net proceeds contribute to donations to local charities.- Total expenses - $6,271.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.