Elaine Grogan Luttrull

Elaine Grogan Luttrull provides financial consulting services to non-profit arts organizations of all sizes in New York. She is the former Director of Financial Analysis for The Juilliard School where her work included accounting for the investment of the endowment, budgeting at both the organizational level and for specific grant proposals or special initiatives, completing entity-level tax returns, and modeling complex financial hypotheses. In addition, she assists small- and mid-sized organizations in the New York area with various financial statement, budgeting, fundraising and tax requirements. Previously, she worked for Ernst & Young in its Transaction Advisory Services practice in New York.

Elaine is an active member of the Arts & Business Council of New York, and a vocal advocate for the services the council provides. She is part of the Business Volunteers for the Arts Steering Committee, and she co-chaired the first BVA fundraising event in August of 2010. In 2009, Elaine was recognized by the Arts & Business Council with its Creative Business Volunteer award, and her work with The Puppetry Arts Theatre was featured as part of President Obama's 2009 United We Serve campaign on volunteerism.

Elaine is passionate about sharing her financial knowledge with the arts community as a whole, and to that end she has taught various sessions on non-profit budgeting (including the most popular "Budgeting for Those Who Would Rather Not"), and she has led informational seminars on the fiduciary duties and financial responsibilities of board members. Additionally, she has provided her unique insights as a professional volunteer on a number of panel discussions, most recently at the Americans for the Arts Half Century Summit in Baltimore, and lectured on the same topic.

She shares her enthusiasm for volunteering by serving as a mentor to accountants and other financial professionals within the arts community, and she hosts regular networking events to help "numbers" professionals within the non-profit sector connect with each other.

Elaine is a licensed CPA who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri. She holds a Master's degree in Accounting and Bachelor's degrees in both Accounting and Economics. She serves as an advisor to the board of The Puppetry Arts Theater and as the Treasurer of the University of Missouri's Alumni Association in New York.