Bunce Performing Arts
Legal name: Bunce Backyard Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454472884
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Maple Grove, MN, US
- Phone
- 7634945665
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,460
- Expenses
- $177,753
- Assets
- $51,527
- Liabilities
- $984
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARK SUNDBERG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARK SUNDBERG (PRESIDENT)
- PAM KOLACZ (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
Bunce Performing Arts tells stories of hope and encouragement to the communities we serve and offers access to theatrical opportunities to people of all ages through affordable, high-quality theatre productions. We cultivate the development, education, and advancement of performers and leadership teams with artists from all levels of experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
The beat after school program for elementary and middle school students provides an enriching experience to young performers so they have the opportunity to develop self-esteem and performance skills while also learning team work, cooperation and respect for others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.