Charity profile · Historical source record

Arts and Education Council

EIN 43-0790672Arts, Culture, Humanities Missouri Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Keep art happening

Founded in 1963, the Arts and Education Council (A&E) is a privately funded arts fundraising organization whose geographic reach benefits the 16-county, bi-state St. Louis metropolitan region. The Arts and Education Council enriches the vibrancy of the St. Louis community by investing in arts organizations and growing the base of local arts supporters. A&E owns and manages the Centene Center for the Arts in St. Louis' Arts District, providing arts organizations of all sizes below-market rent, free rehearsal, meeting and performance space, professional development opportunities through workshops and roundtables and access to fiber optic internet, servers, etc.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

79.45Overall score
out of 100

70.95Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,286,613

Total expenses · USD$2,247,136

Program expenses

$1,788,720.26 recorded amount

79.6%

Fundraising expenses

$314,599.04 recorded amount

14.0%

Administrative expenses

$141,569.57 recorded amount

6.3%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.13 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Cynthia Prost
Recorded compensation: $187,198.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 8.33%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Arts and Education Council
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1963, the Arts and Education Council (A&E) is a privately funded arts fundraising organization whose geographic reach benefits the 16-county, bi-state St. Louis metropolitan region. The Arts and Education Council enriches the vibrancy of the St. Louis community by investing in arts organizations and growing the base of local arts supporters. A&E owns and manages the Centene Center for the Arts in St. Louis' Arts District, providing arts organizations of all sizes below-market rent, free rehearsal, meeting and performance space, professional development opportunities through workshops and roundtables and access to fiber optic internet, servers, etc.
`ein` EIN	43-0790672
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2247136.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.063
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.13
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.14
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.7959999999999999
`fscore` Financial score	70.95
`leader` Recorded leader	Cynthia Prost
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	187198.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0833
`motto` Tagline	Keep art happening
`name` Charity name	Arts and Education Council
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2286613.0
`score` Overall score	79.45
`state` State code	MO
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1788720.2559999998
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	314599.04000000004
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	141569.568

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.