Beck Center for the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 346001636
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lakewood, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2165212540
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,060,916
- Expenses
- $4,186,560
- Assets
- $10,186,066
- Liabilities
- $2,769,422
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LUCINDA EINHOUSE (PRESIDENT & CEO (RETIRED APRIL 2025))
- EDWARD GALLAGHER (PRESIDENT & CEO (PROMOTED APRIL 2025))
- LARRY GOODPASTER (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- LUCINDA EINHOUSE (PRESIDENT & CEO (RETIRED APRIL 2025)): $131,076 total reported compensation
- LARRY GOODPASTER (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS): $82,222 total reported compensation
- EDWARD GALLAGHER (PRESIDENT & CEO (PROMOTED APRIL 2025)): $74,375 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire, enrich, and transform lives through dynamic arts experiences. Beck center for the arts is a non-profit, performing arts and arts education organization dedicated to inspiring and enriching the quality of life for northeastern ohioans. We combine professional theatrical productions with comprehensive curriculum-based arts education in creative arts therapies, dance, music, theater, and visual arts, serving over 150,000 annually in cuyahoga, lorain, lake, medina, and summit counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
Beck center provides arts education programs weekly to over 4,000 individuals from a five-county area on our campus and at community locations. We offer over 300 classes, lessons, and programs in dance, music, theater, visual arts, and creative arts therapies. Our theater and dance education programs stage seven productions each year attended by over 10,000 parents, family, and friends. Beck center is committed to making our arts programming accessible. We offer many free programs and have a robust financial assistance program to ensure that individuals of all means can participate in the arts. We also provide sensory-friendly programming and adaptive arts programming for individuals with disabilities.
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 98% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 32 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.