American Repertory Theater
Legal name: American Repertory Theatre Co Inc
Overview
Mission
The American Repertory Theater at Harvard University is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of theater, always including the audience as a partner.
What it reported doing in 2024
Undergraduate student theatrical plays, productions, and activities included 19 performances of 4 productions, reaching an audience of 2,795 across two campus venues. Across our community engagement and education programs, participation was strong and wide-reaching. Community workshops served a total of 132 participants, including 20 participants in romeo & juliet at the harvard ed portal and 112 participants in the odyssey across multiple sites: 45 at the harvard ed portal, 7 at the east boston library, 40 at the cambridge library, and 20 at the malden library. In addition, acom engaged 14 participants through 15 learning week sessions, while the learning lab reached 115 students across four productions. Our in-school workshops served 72 participants, complemented by four workshops hosted at a.r.t. Finally, the learning lab professional learning community supported 12 educators, who engaged in 18 hours of dedicated professional learning time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042665867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 617.547.8300
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 84.2%; rating input score 84; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 32 of 38 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 47 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 217 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Leadership & pay
47 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN MANNING (EX OFFICIO TRUSTEE; PROVOST; PROFESSOR, IN THE DEP): $1,061,979 total reported compensation
- HERMAN B DUTCH LEONARD (TRUSTEE; ELIOT I. SNIDER AND FAMILY PROFESSOR OF B): $810,771 total reported compensation
- HENRY LOUIS GATES JR (TRUSTEE; ALPHONSE FLETCHER, JR., UNIVERSITY PROFES): $724,607 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.