Charity profile · Historical source record

The MacDowell Colony

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Freedom to Create
The mission of The MacDowell Colony is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

81.05Overall score
out of 100
73.37Financial score
out of 100
97.00Accountability & 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$3,557,976
Total expenses · USD$4,178,835

Program expenses

$2,536,552.84 recorded amount
60.7%

Fundraising expenses

$714,580.79 recorded amount
17.1%

Administrative expenses

$919,343.70 recorded amount
22.0%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.27 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
Cheryl Young
Recorded compensation
$415,716.00
Recorded compensation percentage
9.94%

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

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for The MacDowell Colony
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
97.0
category
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities
description
Mission & description
The mission of The MacDowell Colony is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.
ein
EIN
13-1592242
tot_exp
Total expenses
4178835.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.22
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.27
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.171
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.607
fscore
Financial score
73.37
leader
Recorded leader
Cheryl Young
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
415716.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.09939999999999999
motto
Tagline
Freedom to Create
name
Charity name
The MacDowell Colony
tot_rev
Total revenue
3557976.0
score
Overall score
81.05
state
State code
NH
subcategory
Subcategory
Performing Arts
size
Source size label
mid
program_exp
Program expenses
2536552.8449999997
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
714580.785
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
919343.7

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.