East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

What it reported doing in 2024

Youth Leadership: The Center continued to offer opportunities for our students to connect to their community, while building a strong sense of ownership.Throughout the year, your Student Leadership Committee met to contribute their ideas to how the Center can continue to improve and be inclusive of all students. This included helping facilitate the New Student Orientation for the Diploma program, forming a welcome committee for Summer Intensive, creating a Spirit Week for the Center, and helping promote our student performances.Additionally, the Center received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to launch a collaboration and artistic commission with Robert Moses. The collaboration involved Robert doing a series of workshops with our students around storytelling and movement, creating an original piece that represents the students' stories. To launch this process, he met with our student leadership group in the fall to get some ideas/a sense of direction on how he might best learn about the Center and it's students. Student leadership helped him create a whiteboard in the CT that asked different questions to students ("What are you most proud of"? What's your favorite part about East Bay Center?" "Who inspires you?" etc) - students responded over the course of a week. In the spring, he met with a group of 12 students to create and choreograph the dance piece, which culminated in a performance in June.Student Support: To support our older students to develop their full artistic, academic and social potential, the Center continued our college scholarship program for Young Artists Diploma Program graduates. The scholarship funded 5 full, renewable scholarships for students who plan to pursue the performing arts in college, 4 four year scholarships (approx $10,000/year) recognizing perseverance and motivation, and $2,000 renewable scholarships for all other graduates. As part of their scholarship, graduates will continue to receive coaching and mentoring from the Centers team of social workers, staff and faculty.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
• Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
• Fundraising efficiency: $9.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.09; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings