Earthen Vessels
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760561544
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8326055487
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,209
- Expenses
- $82,909
- Assets
- $2,559
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enlarge the audience for dance through its accessible performance
What it reported doing in 2011
Earthen vessels is a contemporary ballet ensemble that, during the last fiscal year, gave 20 performances, conducted student workshops and hired local dancers and choreographers to produce a 10 week season of dance, benefiting approximately 1800 people.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -95.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.