Descolonizarte Teatro Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852608065
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4077199251
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$235,367
Expenses
$135,971
Assets
$141,967
Liabilities
$1,170

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nadia S Garzon (Executive Director)
  • Alexandra Galford (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Nadia S Garzon (Executive Director): $36,560 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide accessible theater, arts, and educational programming that engages underserved communities through storytelling, cultural expression, and community-based dialogue to promote awareness and community connection.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Descolonizarte Teatro Inc. advanced its mission by producing and presenting 21 arts and cultural events in collaboration with 51 partner organizations across Central Florida. Programming included theater productions, film screenings, poetry events, and facilitated community conversations that centered Latinx and underrepresented voices. The organization reached 3,282 in-person attendees and 543 additional participants, expanding access to culturally relevant programming through both live and community-based engagement. Accessibility a core priority. Programs were presented in Spanish, English, Spanglish, and Indigenous languages, with ASL interpretation and audio description provided when possible, ensuring inclusive participation for diverse audiences. Program service expenses primarily supported artist compensation, production costs, venue rentals, marketing, translation and accessibility services, and travel, reflecting the organization's commitment to directing resources toward mission-driven programming and community impact.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $38.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 56% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 54.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.