Actors Village
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921862418
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3232047731
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,563
- Expenses
- $48,500
- Assets
- $8,426
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zondra Wilson (CEO)
- Andrea Anderson-Burgess (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Zondra Wilson (CEO)
- Andrea Anderson-Burgess (Vice President)
- Diane Fuller (Treasurer)
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
The Actors Village is a nonprofit arts and charitable organization dedicated to supporting actors, artists, and creatives through arts education, training, wellness programming, and community-based cultural initiatives. The organization provides theatrical instruction, performance opportunities, creative skill-building workshops, and outreach programs that promote artistic development, personal growth, and community engagement. The Actors Village also works to address social and economic barriers faced by artists by offering supportive services, educational resources, and access to creative spaces, with a focus on underserved populations. All activities are conducted exclusively for charitable and educational purposes consistent with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Actors Village achieved significant programmatic accomplishments during the reporting year through the delivery of therapeutic, educational, and culturally responsive arts programming designed to improve quality of life, promote wellness, and foster community connection among underserved populations, particularly seniors and community members with limited access to arts and health-focused services. The organization successfully carried out therapeutic art services that integrated creative expression with emotional wellness and social engagement. These sessions provided participants with opportunities to explore creativity in a supportive environment, reduce stress, build confidence, and strengthen social bonds. Participants engaged in guided art activities that encouraged self-expression, storytelling, and reflection, contributing to improved emotional well-being and increased feelings of connection and purpose. In addition, The Actors Village implemented Bingocize, an evidence-based wellness program that combines the familiar game of bingo with light physical movement, health education, and social interaction. Through this program, seniors participated in structured activities designed to promote physical mobility, cognitive stimulation, and social engagement in a fun and accessible format. Bingocize sessions helped participants remain active, reinforced healthy habits, and reduced social isolation, particularly among older adults who may face barriers to traditional fitness or wellness programs. A major cultural and educational accomplishment during the year was the creation of African American quilt art programming for seniors. This initiative honored African American history, storytelling, and artistic traditions by engaging seniors in hands-on quilt art creation. Participants learned about the historical and cultural significance of quilting within African American communities while collaboratively creating visual art pieces that reflected personal experiences, heritage, and collective memory. The program fostered intergenerational dialogue, cultural pride, creative skill development, and community cohesion. Across all programs, The Actors Village served hundreds of individuals, with a primary focus on seniors and community members from underserved neighborhoods. Programming was delivered in accessible community settings and designed to be inclusive, culturally relevant, and responsive to participant needs. Feedback from participants indicated increased engagement, enjoyment, emotional well-being, and appreciation for opportunities to participate in meaningful arts and wellness activities. Through these accomplishments, The Actors Village advanced its charitable and educational mission by using the arts as a tool for healing, wellness, cultural preservation, and community empowerment. All activities were carried out in furtherance of the organization's tax-exempt purpose under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.9%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.9% of revenue deployed · 10.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.