Bechdel Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811445790
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6465805338
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,294
- Expenses
- $34,129
- Assets
- $54,640
- Liabilities
- $24,773
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA APARO (PRESIDENT)
- LUCY FLOURNOY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARIA APARO (PRESIDENT)
- LUCY FLOURNOY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENS RASMUSSEN (TREASURER & SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the performing arts and the presence of women in film, theatre and performing arts, and to expand the availability, breadth and diversity of roles for women in these mediums, with a particular emphasis on promoting performing arts that satisfy the "bechdel test" which asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocating for and creating new works that tell stories of multi-faceted women that are not just 'in relation to men.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.9%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.