Aviva Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470868358
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155954207
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,338
- Expenses
- $25,382
- Assets
- $155,864
- 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
- MERCILEE JENKINS (President)
People named in this filing
- DEBORAH ELIEZER (Secretary)
- LUCINDA OTTO (Treasurer)
- MERCILEE JENKINS (President)
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
Dramatic Arts Production and Education
What it reported doing in 2025
Facilitating community gatherings such as webinars, dialogues and in-person retreats which align artistic inspiration with the natural world. Facilitating liberatory public workshops through a social justice lens
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.7%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
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: 48.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.14; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.7% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.