Boulder International Fringe Festival

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261358750
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2015
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Boulder, CO, USA
Phone
3038035643
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Fairs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$122,184
Expenses
$119,720
Assets
$4,183
Liabilities
$12,419

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LIBERTY SHELLMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CHARLOTTE LASASSO (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • LIBERTY SHELLMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CHARLOTTE LASASSO (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
  • ALEXIS COOLEYCRUGER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Arts festival to produce work of independent artists.

What it reported doing in 2015

Boulder international fringe festival. A 12 day un-juried performance arts festival. 2016 festival presented 163 performances and events, and brought in 169 artists and crew from 29 performance groups, featured in 9 venues, serving 4,698 participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.97; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • 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.

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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.