Coastal Performing Arts Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273505139
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pismo Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8058252455
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ballet
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,475
- Expenses
- $110,751
- Assets
- $16,677
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTIAN CLARNO (President)
- ERIN TIDMARSH (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTIAN CLARNO (President)
- RYAN TIDMARSH (Secretary)
- ERIN TIDMARSH (Vice President)
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
Coastal performing arts foundation's vision is to provide high qulaity theatrical experiences and outreach programs in the performing arts for the youth of san luis obispo county, supported by a strongly funded and well-staffed organization. We passionately believe that when young people have opportunities to grow and flourish by participating in exceptional training and professional quality performing arts productions, they are becoming not only the next generation of artists and arts appreciators, but the next generation of engaged citizens: emplowered to commit, focus, communicate, and energetically participate in a collaborative process.
What it reported doing in 2024
The coastal performing arts foundation sponsors performances by the coastal chamber youth ballet, coastal youth theatre and beyond boundaries that are attended by the general public within the san luis obispo county area. Through these three organizations, cpaf provides opportunities for young artists to develop their creative potential, giving them the chance to express themselves through the performing arts, fostering confidence, commitment, dedication, perseverance, compassion, a sense of community, and the capacity to imagine and create.
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
- 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.