Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd Dba HERE Art Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133449416
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126470202
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,250,757
- Expenses
- $2,389,447
- Assets
- $3,206,992
- Liabilities
- $1,515,844
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kristin Marting (Artistic Director): $100,422 total reported compensation
- Lanxing Fu (Co-Director): $44,101 total reported compensation
- Lauren Miller (Co-Director): $44,101 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art.
What it reported doing in 2024
HERE's artistic programming is organized under two umbrellas: HERE Produces, whichincludes the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), and Dream Music Puppetry; and HERE Presents, which includes PROTOTYPE Festival and the [email protected] HERE brings 35-40 projects to life, working with over 500 artists and seen by an average of 24,000 audience members in New York City. HARP is a multi-year artist residency that provides up to $125,000 in direct and in-kind commissioning, development, and producing support. During FY2025, the HARP cohort artists received year-round guidance and assistance from HERE staff and opportunities to showcase work in process at HERE and through partnerships with other local nonprofits. Three HARP projects were premiered by HERE, graduating its artists from our residency program: LEIMAYs A MEAL (September 2024), [UNTITLED MINIATURE] by Joshua Gelb (February 2025) and Shayok Misha Chaudhrys RHEOLOGY (April 2025). Our PROTOTYPE 2025 festival included nine music based events performed in six Manhattan venues from January 10 to 21st, 2024 including Black Lodge by composer David T. Little and librettist Anne Waldman, directed by Thurston Moore (New York premiere, BRIC Arts); Eat the Document by composer John Glover, librettist Kelley Rourke, directed by Kristin Marting (World Premiere, HERE Arts Center); In a Grove by composer Christopher Cerrone, librettist Stephanie Fleischmann (New York premiere, La MaMa); Telekinetik: A Catapult Opera Production by composer Khary Laurent, director George Cederquist; and Positive Vibration Nation created and performed by Sol Ruiz, directed by Teo Castellanos (New York premiere, HERE Arts Center). Dream Music Puppetry's Puppetopia festival featured 3 new works of puppetry for adults on HERE's Mainstage and Dorothy B. Williams Theatre. The FY2025 season also included a Dream Music Puppetry Program Co-Presentation ANYWHERE by French company Theatre de lEntrouvert. SubletSeries@HERE provides discount rental rates to small companies and individualartists so they may realize their productions on an Off-Broadway stage. Projects wereidentified through a free and open application process. During FY25, SubletSeriessupported 19 productions and one festival, which also received free or deeplydiscounted access to technical equipment for the stage. Projects included TWO SISTERS FIND A BOX OF LESBIAN EROTICA IN THE WOODS, ROOM ROOM ROOM and NATIONAL QUEER THEATERS CRIMINAL QUEERNESS FESTIVAL. The FY25 year also featured archival and commissioned works on URHERE, our new digital platform. Commissioned works included [UNTITLED MINIATURE] by Joshua Gelb.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 78.3%; rating input score 78; 14th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 23 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Board meeting minutes documented not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.