Improv Connection

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992298689
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Phone
3109771489
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,425
Expenses
$22,213
Assets
$6,696
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REBEKAH K CHANG (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • REBEKAH K CHANG (CEO)
  • KATY T STEDNITZ (CFO)
  • LEANDRO F ESQUERRA (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

To provide communication skills to support rehabilitation and to ease the transition after incarceration.

What it reported doing in 2025

The lmprov connection - 2025 year in summary2025 accomplishments:1. Conducted 12 cohorts (10-week classes) in three prisons: ironwood state prison, avenal state prison, and California institution for men2. In 2025, we worked with 271 participants.lmprov connection mission: the lmprov connection empowers incarcerated men to rediscover their humanity through comedy improv, transforming fear into trust, isolation into connection, and brokenness into healing and hope beyond prison.lmprov connection's program: l. Lmprov connection offers a ten-week program that provides the following: improvisation activities to create and shape experiences that: a. Support the concept of "yes, and" (agreement and a supportive environment), b. Understand the components of, story- and scene-building, c. Work on collaboration and teamwork through partnership, d. Build trust, e. Create and explore charactersf. Ground emotions through sharing experiences, g. Develop scenes as a cohesive group, h. Establish eye-contact to connect with one another, i. And explore ways to express a personal energy through voice, facial, and body language in order to communicate effectively.ultimately, participants develop skills to communicate, to be creative, to challenge themselves and to move outside their comfort zones, to collaborate, and to connect ' with themselves and others with authenticity.on the last day of the intensive and the eight-week program, we conclude with a performance that highlights the skills they have learned.we collaborate and communicate with the institution's community resource manager, staff, self-help sponsors, and officers and have committed to: offer various improv programs that meet the institution's needs, provide flexible scheduling, uphold the values, standards, and rules of the institution, provide attendance statistics, deliver in a consistent and timely manner, and provide a regular status as to our progress with each class.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93

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: -8.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 96.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.