Chicago Improv Productionsnfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352221439
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7738756616
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,247
- Expenses
- $36,124
- Assets
- $2,743
- Liabilities
- $77,738
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK CARTER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARK CARTER (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL FLEISHMAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- CHERYL SLOAN (TREASURER)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Presentation of improv as an art form
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 28.34; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2019
- 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.
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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.