Friends of the Opera House at Enosburg Falls
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030353647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Enosburg Falls, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8029336171
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,446
- Expenses
- $91,846
- Assets
- $154,380
- Liabilities
- $1,276
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- SUZANNE HULL-CASSAVANT (CHAIR)
- SARAH BUTSON (VICE CHAIR)
- MATT RAINVILLE (TREASURER)
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
The organization's exempt primary purpose is to continue to restore and revitalize the opera house at enosburg falls to its former position as the performing arts and county-wide cultural center of northwestern Vermont. It also intends to encourage and enhance local performers by sponsoring and producing programs for a meaningful cultural exposure for all of franklin county and beyond and to provide a state-of-the-art facility to promote, encourage and assist performers and artists in the community in cultural and artistic expression.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintenance and management of facility
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.