Hobart Shakespeareans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954782095
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2132004700
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,000
- Expenses
- $81,905
- Assets
- $56,997
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rafe A Esquith (President)
People named in this filing
- Rafe A Esquith (President)
- Barbara M Tong (CFO)
- Lois Sarkisian (Secretary)
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
Charitable and educational: provides economically disadvantaged students with opportunities to improve academic and social skills. Services approximately 125 students per year; students are ages 9-16 years and are from culturally diverse backgrounds. Program operates monday through friday, from 6:30 a.m. Until 5:00 p.m., and saturdays from 8:00 a.m. Until 5:00 p.m., 50 weeks per year.
What it reported doing in 2025
Charitable and educational: provides economically disadvantaged students with opportunities to improve academic and social skills. Services approximately 125 students per year; students are ages 9-16 years and are from culturally diverse backgrounds. The program operates monday through friday, from 6:30 a.m. Until 5:00 p.m., and saturdays from 8:00 a.m. Until 5:00 p.m., 50 weeks per year; all academic subjects are encompassed in the program enhanced by music/band activities and a live shakespearean performance utilizing all students.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 38; 38th 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: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.