Working Artists and the Greater Economy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450785519
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7186228222
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,713
- Expenses
- $87,345
- Assets
- $26,826
- Liabilities
- $4,399
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sara Reisman (President)
People named in this filing
- Sara Reisman (President)
- James White (Treasurer)
- Jasmine Amussen (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 organization's mission is to bring attention to, and address, the economic inequalities that exist in the arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program services focus on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions and establishing a sustainable labor relation between artists and art institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.