Classical Actors Ensemble

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272280819
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Roseville, MN, USA
Phone
6513214024
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$36,356
Expenses
$33,833
Assets
$58,550
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Randall Findlay (Board of Directors - President)

People named in this filing

  • Joseph Papke (Producing Artistic Director/Founder)
  • Randall Findlay (Board of Directors - President)
  • Michael Lindsay (Board of Directors - Non-Voting Member)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Education & Community Outreach

What it reported doing in 2025

PRODUCTIONS & EDUCATION: Classical Actors Ensemble provides accessible, high quality classical theater as popular entertainment along with educational enrichment. As such, the productions provide sought-after professional development opportunities for emerging artists and educational outreach to secondary schools. Classical Actors Ensemble offers several options to audiences - such as 'Pay-What-You-Can' nights, sliding scale ticket options, free performances for all summer programs, etc. Total working artists served: 26; Total community members served: 3,552

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.