Clark Center for the Performing Arts

Overview

Mission

The Clark Center was created to inspire, entertain, and educate our community through the power of cultural and performing arts. Bring your ideas and your imagination and let us show you the world! Located in the charming hamlet of Arroyo Grande, our theater is a state-of-the-art hub for cultural and community productions, as well as a professional setting for vocational and educational events. brought to you, BY YOU! As a lover of the arts, you know that a lot of effort goes into maintaining a state-of-the-art theater and producing quality live shows. Through donations, sponsorships, and volunteer opportunities, your generosity can help us locate and promote the best and most unique shows available so that we can make theater more accessible to everyone.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 82
• Transparency & Controls: 94
• Accountability: 79
• Sustainability: 38
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
• Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $873K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 12 people listed
• Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
• Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2021
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• 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.

• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
• High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.