Yeah Art Limited

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 863070470
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Phone: 9258998175
Rating: 80
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue: $192,569
Expenses: $164,813
Assets: $34,434

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Ja Ronn Thompson (Executive Director)
Nikole Lim (Board Member - President)
Darrell Booker (Board Member - Vice President)

People named in this filing

Ja Ronn Thompson (Executive Director)
Michael Blankenship (Managing Director)
Madeline Lambie (Communications Director)

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

Provide equitable access to creative tech education for youth.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Workshops & Industry Partnerships: Facilitated workshops and mentorship with professional artists and industry partners exposing approximately 00-150 students parents and educators to real-world creative careers and art-centered community engagement activities.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 83
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 36
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -48.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 77.9% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 7 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 20/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.